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91 | Fanon’s Dialectic of Violence
🕑 Added 2024-06-11 09:00:09 +0000 UTCIn this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Throughout the episode we link together Fanon’s endorsement of revolutionary violence against colonial domination with his work as a psychiatrist. How could Fanon argue for the necessity of violence while bearing witness to its regress effects on both those who suffer violence and those who deploy it? What makes the revolutionary violence of the colonized qualitatively distinct from the violence of colonizers? Finally, what can Fanon's dialectic of violence tell us today? This episode casts Fanon as both revolutionary and care worker and explores the tensions and resonances between the need for freedom and the costs of struggle.
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References:
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2004).
Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, trans. Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove Press, 1965).
Frantz Fanon, Œuvres (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2011).
Frantz Fanon, Alienation and Freedom, eds. Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young, trans. Steven Corcoran (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
Music:
“Vintage Memories” by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com
“My Space” by Overu | https://get.slip.stream/KqmvAN
Comments
David fryett
Posted here yesterday and it disappeared, hope this'll stick. Something on the paych appeal of fascism. Read Reich's book and it was hideous. Any reading recommendations
David fryett
Oops. Forgot to say that I've only recently discovered yr pod and I could not be more impressed
David fryett
I'd like to hear a pod on the psych of fascism. I read Reich's book, but it was completely unsatisfying. First, not everything is about sex: You can't masturbate your way to revolution. Second, He's a LeniNazi. If you are not interested in podding on this topic, could one of you suggest what I might read.
Justin Thomas
I would love to hear an episode on Paulo Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'. I have yet to read the other authors you've highlighted in your podcast tackling the topic of revolutionary violence and coloniaism (Fanon, Benjamin, Cesaire) but I've thoroughly enjoyed them. Thank you for all your hard work.
