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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

Sol Plaatje Part II

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soundcloud.com/matthew-douglas-blackman/sol-plaatje-part-ii … [Read more...] about Sol Plaatje Part II

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: ANC, Apartheid, Cecil John Rhodes, Featured, Liberalism, South Africa, South African literature

Sol Plaatje Part 1

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https://soundcloud.com/matthew-douglas-blackman/sol-plaatje-part-1-an-interview-with-brian-willan … [Read more...] about Sol Plaatje Part 1

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Apartheid, Books, Brian Willan, Featured, Liberalism, Sol Plaatje, South Africa, South African History

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 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 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

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 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

Where I Stand 26/05/2016

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‘I was brought up a Marxist.  Nowdays that isn’t much of a boast.’ This is how Tony Judt, one of the great liberals of the last … [Read more...] about Where I Stand 26/05/2016

Filed Under: where I stand Tagged With: ANC, Edward Said, Liberalism, South Africa, Tony Judt

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