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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 Second Man: An autobiography concerning a sense of belonging – 1

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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

Filed Under: The Second Man Tagged With: Albert Camus, David Hume, Featured, Liberalism, Nostalgia, The Odyssey

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

4 Books on Violence – Camus, Arendt, Fanon & Zizek

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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

Filed Under: Four Impressions Tagged With: Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Revolution, Slavoj Zizek, Violence

The South Africa of the Mind

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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

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Albert Camus, Edward Said, Featured, pied-noirs, post-colonialism, South Africa, Tony Judt

Where I Stand 24/05/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Albert Camus, Frantz Fanon, post-colonialism, Simone Weil, South Africa, The Wretched of the Earth

Where I Stand 12/05/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: #MatthewTheunissen, Albert Camus, Craft Beer Socialism, Nostalgia, post-colonialism, Racism, Simulacra

Where I Stand 26/04/2016

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Albert Camus, South Africa

Where I Stand 10/04/16

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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

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: Albert Camus, Dan Jacobson, J M Coetzee, Kamel Daoud, pied-noirs, post-colonialism, Stephen Watson

The Collaboration of Kamel Daoud

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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

Filed Under: articles Tagged With: Albert Camus, Conor Cruise O'Brien, David Carrol, Kamel Daoud, post-colonialism, The Meursault Investigation, The Outsider

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