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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.'

AI and the sublime

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be on everyone’s lips these days, and not surprisingly, given the widely divergent opinions about it. Some say it’s a...

AI, humanity, and the Tower of Babel

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One of the most suggestive allusions to Artificial Intelligence that I have come across lately came from Renaud Beauchard, a French journalist writing for...

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...

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