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fanon: enjoying the duel
Frantz Fanon. The theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. An angry Isiah preaching to the choir? … …The repetitions, ambiguities, and facile rhetoric that mar certain chapters of The Wretched of the Earth are due largely to the circumstances … Continue reading
fanon: attacking the high-minded
Frantz Fanon. The Prophet Scorned. Fifty years after his death, is this theorist of revolution still pertinent or are his writing a kind of surrealist fiction with himself asĀ central protagonist? … …The final Fanonist influence concerns the search for … Continue reading
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Tagged Algeria FLN, Algerian Civil War, David Macey, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Fulford, Stokely Carmichael, Tahar Djaout, The Black Panther Party
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fanon: love thy neighbor but dispatch him first
Frantz Fanon and his theory of revolution. Fifty years on the Wretched of the Earth may aspire to be a guide to yuppies and hipsters of the perplexed variety… …Frantz Fanon wrote that the urban equivalent of the peasantry was … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, David Macey, Eldridge Cleaver, Fanon Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, George Jackson Black Panthers, Hannah Arendt, Huey Newton, Jean Paul Sartre, Robert Fulford, The Black Panther Party, The Last Poets, Walter Benjamin
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fanon: fetish for revolution
…Frantz Fanon’s final theme is the emergence of a new national culture. Using Algeria as an example, he tried to show that art forms were being changed by the war. Arab storytellers he says, replaced the formula “this all happened … Continue reading
fanon: violence as cleansing agent
…He returned to Tunis, and, knowing that the remission he enjoyed from leukemia might end at any time, he finished his last and most important book, The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon worked twenty hours a day, interrupting his writing … Continue reading
fanon: relegated to second class
Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Battle of Algiers 1957, David Macey, FLN Algeria, FLN Zohra Drif, Frantz Fanon, franz fanon, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Foucault, Robert Fulford, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin
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