Ronaldo Tadeu escreve sobre o centenário de Frantz Fanon: "no palimpsesto que constitui Pele negra, máscaras brancas, uma das preocupações centrais é com a linguagem e o modo como ela se desdobra na formação psíquica do negro. Na linguagem, estão sedimentados elementos simbólicos que formam a civilização e a cultura — 'falar uma língua é assumir um mundo, uma cultura'."| Blog da Boitempo
What could a revolutionary thinker like Frantz Fanon possibly draw from the political philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, a self-proclaimed anti-egalitarian, anti-democrat, and anti-socialist? Nietzsche clearly influenced Black Skin, White Masks, a book framed by references to Nietzsche in its introductory and penultimate chapters. Although the first reference is a misattributed quotation, the second is a…| Blog of the APA
Introduction Contemporary critical theories of Black life, particularly Afropessimism as formulated by Frank Wilderson and the postcolonial fatalism found in Achille Mbembe’s On the Postcolony (2001), have produced a striking impasse: frameworks seeking to disclose the depth of Black negation increasingly foreclose the possibility of Black agency. In these accounts, Black subjectivity is rendered ontologically…| Blog of the APA
Frantz Fanon’s work has primarily been received through the lens of his political writings and the political aspects of his work. His psychiatric writings and psychoanalytic concepts, however, have not attracted nearly as much interest. Yet, because Fanon’s dual role as a psychiatrist and political thinker manifests itself in both his theoretical and practical work,…| Blog of the APA
I’ve expressed plenty of disagreement with the Social Justice movement and will continue to do so. I also believe that …Continue reading →| Love of All Wisdom
This year, we are celebrating the centennial of the birth of Frantz Fanon, the great revolutionary psychiatrist, philosopher, and anti-colonial French author from Martinique. His work explored the …| African Heritage
Cristiane Sabino comenta “Desde Fanon”, lançamento que chega em primeira mão aos assinantes do Armas da Crítica: é contra a lógica acadêmica e mercantil produtivista e “algoritimi…| Blog da Boitempo
