Near the end of Albert Camus’ novel The Plague, Tarrou confesses to Dr Rieux the roots of his beliefs. To kill anybody for an … [Read more...] about The Plague: Camus, Contemporary Capitalism & Covid-19
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The Monologism of Politically Correct Language: or being accused of supporting Donald Trump
Recently when I was sitting at the Kimberley Hotel talking to some old friends and a few art students I discovered just how … [Read more...] about The Monologism of Politically Correct Language: or being accused of supporting Donald Trump
Concerning: The Rise of the Private Art Museum in Cape Town
In 2015 I wrote an open letter to Mark Coetzee, the now ex-director of the newly opened Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art … [Read more...] about Concerning: The Rise of the Private Art Museum in Cape Town
Where I stand 28/07/2017
I very rarely find a reason to write about politics these days. The absurdity of it all makes it too difficult to write seriously … [Read more...] about Where I stand 28/07/2017
Where I Stand 09/09/2016
One of the defining features of a modern legal system is that the authorities have an official and private self. This was not … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 09/09/2016
Where I Stand 05/09/2016
I have spent much of the month of August travelling down to London to see C. For some or other reason, certainly with no … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 05/09/2016
Where I Stand 04/09/2016
As Karl Popper suggested in his The Open Society and Its Enemies Platonic, Marxist and Hegelian versions of the dialectic are all … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 04/09/2016
Where I Stand 08/06/2016
Like much of Hannah Arendt's thinking the three essays published in her book On Violence tends to need some further clarification … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 08/06/2016
Where I Stand 03/06/2016
I have, over the last few weeks, been reading about violence in general and revolutionary violence in particular. This … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 03/06/2016
Where I Stand 2/06/2016
On arriving at the University of Cape Town in 1994 as a student I hurriedly joined the ANC branch on campus. Of course UCT was … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 2/06/2016
