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Bert Olivier

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Bert Olivier works at the Department of Philosophy, University of the Free State. Bert does research in Psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, ecological philosophy and the philosophy of technology, Literature, cinema, architecture and Aesthetics. His current project is 'Understanding the subject in relation to the hegemony of neoliberalism.'

Has Orwell’s ‘1984’ become reality?

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To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984),...

Who’s afraid of the AI Boogeyman?

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It is becoming ever more obvious that many people fear rapidly developing Artificial Intelligence (AI), for various reasons, such as its supposed superiority, compared...

Dr Reiner Fuellmich: A persecuted hero of the resistance

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On a flight back to South Africa from attending a conference in South Korea recently, I watched the gripping biographical film, Lee (2023; directed...

The Hippocratic Oath and the Covid debacle

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Is the Hippocratic Oath, which dates back to antiquity, relevant today? Most reasonably informed people would know that it is an oath pertaining to a...

The limits of hospitality

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I wonder if anyone has looked at the crisis surrounding illegal, virtually unchecked immigration in the US, UK, and European Union, as well as...

Why no justice for shot victims?

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I have previously wondered whether the recent (and continuing) revelations about the Covid injections’ death toll would bring any justice. Given the rapidly increasing number...

Technocracy, fear-mongers, and the conspiracy

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The term, ‘conspiracy theory’ became part of common parlance during the ‘Covid era,’ but although all of us know what it refers to –...

Is peace possible today?

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As we approach Christmas, with its connotations of peace and goodwill to all people, and the New Year, when one traditionally comes up with...

Schopenhauer: Humanity’s fall to irrationality

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In the third section of The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music (1872) Friedrich Nietzsche quotes the ancient tragedian, Sophocles, where...

Philosophy of law for the modern world

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The French philosopher, Jean-Francois Lyotard, who contributed important philosophical insights in a variety of philosophical sub-disciplines, regarded his book, The Differend (originally published in...

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