“Normal men do not know that everything is possible” – David Rousset The movie ComplianceDirected by Craig Zobel, Magnolia Pictures (2012). For a trailer and summary of the plot see...
Narnia Bohler-Muller
Deputy Executive Director, Democracy and Governance, Human Sciences Research Council and Adjunct Professor, Nelson Mandela School of Law, University of Fort Hare, South Africa.
Human Rights for Corporations: The Death of Democracy?
Miraculous you call it babe You ain't seen nothing yet They've got Pepsi in the Andes McDonalds in Tibet (Roger Waters, Amused to Death) In the case of Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 130 S.Ct. 876 (2010) the United States Supreme Court, its highest...
Regulating Intimacy (again): Sex Workers as Vixens and Victims
Get your money for nothing And your chicks for free (Dire Straits) My previous contribution on Assange and the Swedish sex scandal drew some ire from feminist bloggers who mostly raised Catherine MacKinnon’s domination politics to refute my arguments relating to...
Regulating Intimacy – Assange, Foucault and Rape
Sweet dreams are made of this/Who am I to disagree?/I travel the world/And the seven seas/Everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you/Some of them want to get used by you/Some of them want to abuse you/Some of them want to be abused. (Eurythmics)...
Rescuing Human Rights?
Natural and human rights were conceived as a tool against the despotism of power and the arrogance of wealth. Their co-option by governments means that they have lost much of their critical force and their initial aim and role has been reversed. (Douzinas, 2007: 24)....