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The Plague: Camus, Contemporary Capitalism & Covid-19

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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

Filed Under: Features, where I stand Tagged With: Albert Camus, Capitalism, Corona Virus, Covid-19, Featured, Liberalism, South Africa

The Monologism of Politically Correct Language: or being accused of supporting Donald Trump

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Bakhtin, Featured, Isaiah Berlin, Monologism, PC, Politically Correct

Concerning: The Rise of the Private Art Museum in Cape Town

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  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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: A4, Contemporary African Art, Featured, Mark Coetzee, Norval Foundation, South Africa, Wendy Fisher, Zeitz MOCAA

Where I stand 28/07/2017

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Frantz Fanon

Where I Stand 09/09/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Corruption, Karl Popper, South Africa

Where I Stand 05/09/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Albert Camus, British Museum, Hampstead Heath, Highgate Cemetery, John Charles Gage, John Keats, Karl Marx

Where I Stand 04/09/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Brexit, Karl Popper, post-colonialism

Where I Stand 08/06/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Hannah Arendt, South Africa, Tony Judt

Where I Stand 03/06/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Corruption, Dialectic, Featured, Frantz Fanon, post-colonialism, South Africa, Violence

Where I Stand 2/06/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Achille Mbembe, ANC, Deliberative Democracy, Intolerance, Judith Butler, Kenneth Clark, Liberalism, South Africa, The University, UCT, UWC, Xolela Mangcu

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