‘The Beast’ by Ruth Ewan at Collective in Edinburgh

Destroying the environment, playing the philanthropist card.

Ruth Ewan, ‘The Beast’ (film still), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Collective.

By Daniel Gauss

It was not so much that Andrew Carnegie liked dinosaurs. He was friends with Herbert Spencer, and was deeply attracted to the now discredited theory which Spencer called Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism made Carnegie an alpha male…