The Impossible is not Congolese: City Life in the DRC

Boeck, Filip De; Baloji, Sammy; Malaquais, Dominique

doi:10.1515/9783035608786-134

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“…But what, then, precisely are the kind of "floating and dispersed elements of the pos si ble" that lie hidden inside the hole, inside this urban site the inhabitants of which often repeat that "the impossible is not Congolese" (l'impossible n'est pas Congolais) (see De Boeck and Baloji 2017)? As an illustration of the notion of a literally "bullshit job," David Graeber, in a 2012 Tedx Talk, introduced the analogy of "digging a hole and filling it back" over and over-a method, he stated, used in some Soviet gulags as a form of torture to drive people crazy.…”

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Grammars of the Urban Ground

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We are grateful to the authors for their willingness to write chapters in the spirit of this book. Their cooperation has greatly enhanced the cohesion and clarity of the proj ect. We also thank the British Acad emy for its enthusiasm in hosting a series of workshops in 2018 and 2019 on new urban grammars, from which this book germinated, and for facilitating its open access. Philip Lewis and Desislava Stoichkova created the opportunity and believed in the need to open new ways of "thinking the urban." We are also indebted to Courtney Berger at Duke University Press for her support and encouragement, to Chen Qu for invaluable help in tying together references and biblio graphies, and to the two referees who offered valuable suggestions to strengthen the manuscript.

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