My name is Ralph Borland, and I’m an artist, curator and researcher based in Cape Town, South Africa. I was a researcher with HUMA, the Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from March 2021 – February 2023. I have held two postdoctoral fellowships at UCT, first with the Public Culture CityLab at the African Centre for Cities (2012 – 2014) and subsequently on the international research project Global Arenas of Knowledge (2014 – 2017) which investigates ‘Southern Theory‘. My independent interventionist art project for several years is African Robots and SPACECRAFT. This site houses my PhD thesis, and my continuing research – for more information, please see the About page. This is my journal, where I keep track of items of interest to my work. You can use the ‘Categories’ menu in the sidebar to navigate through posts – ‘Objects‘ for example. Please feel free to send me links to examples of interesting objects and ideas or anything else related to my research – you can contact me here. Subscribe to this blog by clicking here. For my wider work please visit ralphborland.net and follow me on Instagram @ralphborland and on Twitter @ralphborland