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Discontent — A Strange Fruit Periodical
Cultural analysis in print pressure.
Essays, reports, and visual studies. Arranged with classical editorial pressure instead of infinite-feed drift.
The Governing Technology – Xenophobia as Electoral Infrastructure
Discontent — Issue 002 Broken Pattern / Discontent · Issue 002 · 2026 The GoverningTechnology How South Africa’s politicians learned to perform governance instead of deliver it — and why xenophobia is the most efficient technology available to them. Hussain Al-Baphuti April 2026 Broken Pattern Intelligence In
” An adult but not really.”
Essay · Discontent English is a Dying Language By Leo Vanzini First published Feb 2026 First of the month on a Monday, as hopeful as any other. Been like that for a while now. Can’t remember when it wasn’t, just that it was different before this infinite present. Maybe. There are workers on the roof of my parent’s ho
Gnossienne Launch Report
Gnossienne Launch Report A Thursday Night in Parktown North author: Leo Vanzini date: 2026-01-08 venue: Sumthing Sumthing, Parktown Quarter status: Published “Where are you going again?” Sumthing Sumthing restaurant in Parktown North. “Uh-huh…Okay well what’s the event?” It’s a book launch. “What book?” I have no idea
It’s a Wrap: Spotify & Masturbatory Year-end Prattling
By Leo Vanzini ‘The role of the intellectual is no longer to change society but rather comment eloquently on it.’ -I forgot who said this. The role of the pseudo-intellectual is to use the headings of complex ideas and theories alongside profanity and hyperbolic similes to describe over-reported-on happenings as an att
Modise Moriri vs. The Matlala Parallax and the Mathys Situation
REPORTAGE December 2024 Short Left: Modise Moriri vs. The Matlala Parallax and the Mathys Situation I went to the café to watch the committee hearing on police capture and write serious analysis. That lasted four minutes. BY MODISE MORIRI The fluorescent tube above me buzzed like an insect dying in chapters. On the T