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
Albert Camus
The Second Man: An autobiography concerning a sense of belonging – 1
I arrived back in South Africa in October 2008. My mother died that year and a three-year relationship had just ended. While I was … [Read more...] about The Second Man: An autobiography concerning a sense of belonging – 1
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
4 Books on Violence – Camus, Arendt, Fanon & Zizek
1.The Rebel - Albert Camus Camus’s The Rebel (L'Homme Révolté) was famously panned by Sartre and his friends in the periodical Le … [Read more...] about 4 Books on Violence – Camus, Arendt, Fanon & Zizek
The South Africa of the Mind
I was, while walking through Glasgow, listening to the audiobook of Tony Judt’s Reappraisals – a collection of essays largely … [Read more...] about The South Africa of the Mind
Where I Stand 24/05/2016
With all of the Frantz Fanon worship going around I thought that I would finally read The Wretched of the Earth cover-to-cover – … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 24/05/2016
Where I Stand 12/05/2016
Having rejoined Facebook the world seems to be a darker place. I say this because everybody seems to have become more intolerant … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 12/05/2016
Where I Stand 26/04/2016
I have always been afraid of reading Albert Camus’s The Rebel mainly because most commentators have suggested that it is … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 26/04/2016
Where I Stand 10/04/16
Notes on a new fiction called The Albertsburg Judgement: The Albertsburg Judgement is a conscious collaboration with the … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 10/04/16
The Collaboration of Kamel Daoud
This essay is a draft of a work in progress concerning postcolonial rewriting I The notion of the rewriting or retelling of … [Read more...] about The Collaboration of Kamel Daoud
