Time: 11am PST/2pm EST/7pm UK
“Frantz Fanon and The Wretched of the Earth”: Frantz Fanon’s The Wrenched of the Earth (Les damnés de la terre, 1961) remains one of the most influential and provocative books on violence ever written. Perhaps more than with any other writer, with Fanon the idea of an objective and neutral study of the problem of violence breaks apart. Fanon critically attends to the wider historical developments of regimes of colonial violence and moves onto the ways it operates viscerally at the level of individual lives, quite literally marking out in an all-too-naturalising way the rulers from the subjugated. At its heart then is a meditation on the psychic life of violence and its lived and generational consequences, which continues to ask uncomfortable questions of us all.
This conversation with the renowned Fanon scholar Lewis R. Gordon will reflect upon the impact and continued relevance of his book, attending to dialectical logic of colonialism, the question of revolutionary violence, and the poetry that permeates Fanon’s unique thinking, while asking why Fanon’s question of “who actually constitutes the wretched of the earth?” remains as important as ever.
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