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2. PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES
2.1
Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type and Print Culture in South African Missionary Colonialism
LEON DE KOCK
LANGUE: THE CONTEXT OF PRINT CULTURE
It would be a commonplace to say that the history of print culture can be seen as a midpoint, a swivel, in the larger history of colonisation and modernisation in South Africa, and yet this remains a point of profound significance in any encompassing review of the country’s violent emergence as a state, a polity in the modern sense, with a constructed—although persistently contested—sense of its own public sphere. The very construction of such a sphere, a logos-centred site of deliberative public reason in the Kantian sense, in which a Westphalian state would eventually emerge, depended critically on the development of a print culture. In the same way that the spine of a book glues together the divergence of the volume’s contents within a single, usable and handy form, so the introduction of print enabled a medial convergence, a technological axis in whose versatile
