“What–can one do who rejects mastery?” Negotiating North Kivu from across the Atlantic. August 2013.

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2013, August, DR Congo, Goma, Roland Barthes, Rumangabo, Systematic Theology, Systematics

Click on image to enlarge. [Image from near Rumangabo, outside Goma, DRC, 2011.]

“Is is not characteristic of reality to be unmasterable? And is it not the characteristic of any system to master it? What then, confronting reality, can one do who rejects mastery? Get rid of the system as apparatus, accept systematics as writing….”

Roland Barthes, ROLAND BARTHES (1977)