The Stinking Ontology of Sh#t in the Water: Higher Education Public Pedagogy and 'Existance'?

摘要

"Existance" is not a spelling mistake. It is a word from Soweto street poet Zachariah Rapola's poem, questioning our "stance in existence."1 In the context of this essay, the poem raises the challenging perspective of our "stance in existence" for engaging with the SDGs. The SDGs set a range of clear targets, but in doing so, they fail to give a good account of the stinking ontology of some of the issues to be dealt with, and thus lack a certain sense of realism.