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Pavoni, A. (2026). Speculating Kinaxixe. Lo Squaderno. 73, 23-27
Exportar Referência (IEEE) 
A. Pavoni,  "Speculating Kinaxixe", in Lo Squaderno, no. 73, pp. 23-27, 2026
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@article{pavoni2026_1777268083208,
	author = "Pavoni, A.",
	title = "Speculating Kinaxixe",
	journal = "Lo Squaderno",
	year = "2026",
	volume = "",
	number = "73",
	pages = "23-27",
	url = "https://www.losquaderno.net/"
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Speculating Kinaxixe
T2  - Lo Squaderno
IS  - 73
AU  - Pavoni, A.
PY  - 2026
SP  - 23-27
SN  - 1973-9141
UR  - https://www.losquaderno.net/
AB  - Urban spaces are never what they appear to be. Vision is tethered to the present, while cities are
replete with spectral presences, like those emanating from the sedimented violence of colonialism or
the pristine visions of development utopias. Archival reconstruction and critical deconstruction can
retrace or denounce this ghostly matter. Yet they fall short of addressing its expression – the force it
harbours, the form it takes, the effects it conjures. When the overlapping temporalities composing
a place are arranged in a linear sequence, what is gained in historical clarity is lost in speculative
insight. What that means when it comes to write (a) place is the question that kept haunting me
as I negotiated, under the scorching sun, the elongated roundabout of Largo do Kinaxixi, looking for
a merciful shade and some kind of entry point to access the multiple layers composing this most
intricate of Luanda’s sites. Today, the square has a sleek attire. After renewal works, it reopened for the
49th anniversary of Angola’s independence, November 11, 2024. It has new patches of grass, benches,
surveillance cameras, streetlights, public restrooms, an amphitheatre and a luminous fountain. All
this makes up for the eerie emptiness that had been left by the demolition of a famous market,
almost twenty years before. At the centre of the square, a little puddle evokes the original meaning
of Kinaxixi [from kina – pit, hole; and xixi – spring water], if we are to follow Luandino Vieira’s
etymological proposition.
ER  -