photographers hired to take pictures at an academic conference in Luanda have been taking pictures of the audience and sell them outside of the lecture hall as glamor shots.
Naturally my own suspicions are confirmed– academic lectures are the place to seen and be seen. But in the spectacle of the viewer being viewed and buying himself as the viewer, there are an alarming number of audience members looking weird, nodding off, etc. Is this the red carpet for the life of the mind, or are these souvenirs for the tourists?
