Jaco Barnard-Naudé
Biographic Data
| ID | 818934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaco Barnard-Naudé |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaco |
| FAMILY NAME | Barnard-Naudé |
| SIGNATURE | BARNARD-NAUDÉ J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2670-6672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
World Literature and Human Rights
World Literature and Human Rights
This special issue of the Journal of World Literature explores the fraught and generative intersections between world literature and human rights at a moment of acute global crisis. The introduction opens with the invocation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar (1860) as an exemplary instance of literature’s capacity to intervene in debates about human rights, situating it alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a book referenced in Ma…
Cornell in South Africa
And Losing Thus the Boundary / Of the Finite Me, / Diffusing Outward, I Approach / The Edges of Infinity' (Plath, 2020)
The article investigates the meaning and value of Jacques Lacan's term 'extimacy'. It argues that there are two competing notions of extimacy at work in the literature, a negative one (which dominates the literature) and a positive (nascent) one, which is not yet fully worked out in the literature and to which this contribution offers a form of development through the recourse to the instance of the (love) letter in the unconscious. The author as…
Decolonising the Real
“Transformative constitutionalism” has been suggested as a viable post-liberal alternative to juristic interpretation after apartheid. The article considers the role of transformative constitutionalism in the decolonisation of the Real. It suggests that colonialism denigrates the unconscious of the colonised through an instrumentalisation by way of which it is incorporated as a critical part of the system of colonialism. Transformative constituti…
Burying the superego
This essay unfolds in four parts. In the first part I argue that the struggle against apartheid must be understood as a war against war, namely a war that is waged with the superego of apartheid as war itself. In the second part, I consider J.M. Coetzee’s essay on The Mind of Apartheid in the context of the hypothesis put forth by Jacques-Alain Miller and others that racism is the theft of enjoyment. I show that the superego of apartheid is both …
Adonisi v Minister for Transport and Public Works
This article proposes an aesthetic reading of the recent decision of the Western Cape High Court in the case of Adonisi v Minister for Transport and Public Works: Western Cape. The aesthetic reading pursued here is advanced through the work of Jacques Rancière on the aesthetics of politics. The article sets out to establish an understanding of Rancière’s key concept of the ‘distribution of the sensible’. It then proposes a theoretical alignment o…
The Sacrificial Communications of the Law During and after Apartheid
This article explores how law communicates socio-economic injustice under fundamentally different legal orders. It consists of a comparison of two appeal court judgment which are more than thirty years apart: Southern Insurance Association v Bailey (1984) and Komape v Minister of Basic Education (2020). Relying on the work of Johan van der Walt, the argument in relation to the Bailey case is that the judgment is characterised by a structural sile…
“We Must Be Able to Get Used to the Real”
The names “COVID-19” and “Sars-CoV-2” signify an impoverished Symbolic Order attempting to come to terms with “a great disorder in the Real.” Our contemporary defense against the Real has proceeded by way of the insistence of the Imaginary, and at the same time, the Symbolic has become enslaved to this very same Imaginary. The article ends with a plea for a revitalized mode of signification—a correspondence—between the Real and the Symbolic
She Reigns and He Does Not Govern’
For a politics of presupposed equality
This article relies on the thought of Jacques Rancière to plead for an emphasis on what Weeks (1999:36) refers to as a “moment of transgression” in the politics of struggle attendant on the emergence of the queer subject in Africa. As such, it argues that the queer subject's struggle in Africa should in the first place be approached and understood as a political struggle for equality, rather than or in addition to the prevalent emphasis on a lega…
Of Dorothy’s Dog, ‘Poststructural’ Fairy Tales … and the Real
South African precedent does not allow for the consideration of the validity or enforceability of a contract in terms of the good faith principle. Yet, the principle of good faith permeates the foundational ideals and the spirit of South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution. After re-emphasising the by now trite point that all legal rules have distributive consequences and that the common law represents a set of political choices, the article dis…
At the Walls of Athens
Totalitarianism, (Same-Sex) Marriage and Democratic Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This article interrogates what it considers to be several totalitarian moments in the process that led to the legislation that authorised same-sex marriage in South Africa. The interrogation proceeds from three platforms which also form the basis of any believable theory of democratic politics, namely church/state separation, plurality and common (shared) citizenship. My argument is that Parliament -by introducing (and defending) the first draft …
Totalitarianism, (Same-Sex) Marriage and Democratic Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
This article interrogates what it considers to be several totalitarian moments in the process that led to the legislation that authorised same-sex marriage in South Africa. The interrogation proceeds from three platforms which also form the basis of any believable theory of democratic politics, namely church/state separation, plurality and common (shared) citizenship. My argument is that Parliament -by introducing (and defending) the first draft …
At the Walls of Athens
Of Dorothy’s Dog, ‘Poststructural’ Fairy Tales … and the Real
South African precedent does not allow for the consideration of the validity or enforceability of a contract in terms of the good faith principle. Yet, the principle of good faith permeates the foundational ideals and the spirit of South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution. After re-emphasising the by now trite point that all legal rules have distributive consequences and that the common law represents a set of political choices, the article dis…
For a politics of presupposed equality
This article relies on the thought of Jacques Rancière to plead for an emphasis on what Weeks (1999:36) refers to as a “moment of transgression” in the politics of struggle attendant on the emergence of the queer subject in Africa. As such, it argues that the queer subject's struggle in Africa should in the first place be approached and understood as a political struggle for equality, rather than or in addition to the prevalent emphasis on a lega…
She Reigns and He Does Not Govern’
The Sacrificial Communications of the Law During and after Apartheid
This article explores how law communicates socio-economic injustice under fundamentally different legal orders. It consists of a comparison of two appeal court judgment which are more than thirty years apart: Southern Insurance Association v Bailey (1984) and Komape v Minister of Basic Education (2020). Relying on the work of Johan van der Walt, the argument in relation to the Bailey case is that the judgment is characterised by a structural sile…
“We Must Be Able to Get Used to the Real”
The names “COVID-19” and “Sars-CoV-2” signify an impoverished Symbolic Order attempting to come to terms with “a great disorder in the Real.” Our contemporary defense against the Real has proceeded by way of the insistence of the Imaginary, and at the same time, the Symbolic has become enslaved to this very same Imaginary. The article ends with a plea for a revitalized mode of signification—a correspondence—between the Real and the Symbolic
Adonisi v Minister for Transport and Public Works
This article proposes an aesthetic reading of the recent decision of the Western Cape High Court in the case of Adonisi v Minister for Transport and Public Works: Western Cape. The aesthetic reading pursued here is advanced through the work of Jacques Rancière on the aesthetics of politics. The article sets out to establish an understanding of Rancière’s key concept of the ‘distribution of the sensible’. It then proposes a theoretical alignment o…
Decolonising the Real
“Transformative constitutionalism” has been suggested as a viable post-liberal alternative to juristic interpretation after apartheid. The article considers the role of transformative constitutionalism in the decolonisation of the Real. It suggests that colonialism denigrates the unconscious of the colonised through an instrumentalisation by way of which it is incorporated as a critical part of the system of colonialism. Transformative constituti…
Burying the superego
This essay unfolds in four parts. In the first part I argue that the struggle against apartheid must be understood as a war against war, namely a war that is waged with the superego of apartheid as war itself. In the second part, I consider J.M. Coetzee’s essay on The Mind of Apartheid in the context of the hypothesis put forth by Jacques-Alain Miller and others that racism is the theft of enjoyment. I show that the superego of apartheid is both …
And Losing Thus the Boundary / Of the Finite Me, / Diffusing Outward, I Approach / The Edges of Infinity' (Plath, 2020)
The article investigates the meaning and value of Jacques Lacan's term 'extimacy'. It argues that there are two competing notions of extimacy at work in the literature, a negative one (which dominates the literature) and a positive (nascent) one, which is not yet fully worked out in the literature and to which this contribution offers a form of development through the recourse to the instance of the (love) letter in the unconscious. The author as…
Cornell in South Africa
World Literature and Human Rights
World Literature and Human Rights
This special issue of the Journal of World Literature explores the fraught and generative intersections between world literature and human rights at a moment of acute global crisis. The introduction opens with the invocation of Multatuli’s Max Havelaar (1860) as an exemplary instance of literature’s capacity to intervene in debates about human rights, situating it alongside Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), a book referenced in Ma…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Legal Issues in South Africa (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)