Lewis Gordon presents "What Fanon Said"

Recorded at Red Emma's, 6/10/2015
Antiblack racism avows reason is white while emotion, and thus supposedly unreason, is black. Challenging academic adherence to this notion, Lewis R. Gordon offers a portrait of Martinican-turned-Algerian revolutionary psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon as an exemplar of “living thought” against forms of reason marked by colonialism and racism. Working from his own translations of the original French texts, Gordon critically engages everything in Fanon from dialectics, ethics, existentialism, and humanism to philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and political theory as well as psychiatry and psychoanalysis.
Gordon takes into account scholars from across the Global South to address controversies around Fanon’s writings on gender and sexuality as well as political violence and the social underclass. In doing so, he confronts the replication of a colonial and racist geography of reason, allowing theorists from the Global South to emerge as interlocutors alongside northern ones in a move that exemplifies what, Gordon argues, Fanon represented in his plea to establish newer and healthier human relationships beyond colonial paradigms.

[@pearlbarkley1019]

People who don't like Fanon hate the TRUTH!!!

[@ornealm]

Brilliant lecture and love Franz Fanon`s work...as a Caribbean Man growing up in the US Virgin Islands, a former Danish Colony, I am happy he touched on the subject.

[@dromgarvan]

'Violence emerges in a human world ...its not simply a physical thing.' A valuable talk ,worth listening to the end.Thanks for posting.

[@alexandrabrown6792]

Excellent lecturer...very informative and very thought provoking

[@emmanuelalozie5812]

This was an excellent discussion. I will definitely re-examine Fanon's work.

[@pearlbarkley1019]

We are the FIRST PHILOSOPHERS!!!

[@mohammedfarhat922]

Love from Palestine. Great talk! Thanks mr Gordon

[@SagesseNoir]

Much love and solidarity from Black America to the struggling people of Palestine!

[@mohammedfarhat922]

SagesseNoir Thank you my brother. Likewise.

[@happygucci5094]

My heart and solidarity is forever with the Palestinian people. I pray that you and your family are safe. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🙏🏽💗 all power to all people. With love and prayers from Bermuda 🇧🇲

[@taq1238]

​@mohammedfarhat922 How are you, my friend? 🇯🇲

[@SagesseNoir]

Great talk!

[@pearlbarkley1019]

One my favorite quotes from The Great Ancestor is .... "The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be". From Frantz Fanon ... Profoundly true today as yesterday!!! WHEN WILL WE LISTEN TO THIS ANCESTOR?

[@SagesseNoir]

From the chapter "Concerning Violence" in THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH....A masterpiece

[@TestChannel-cr6vx]

its insane how the shirt came back in 2020

[@cinnamonstar808]

i know!

[@pearlbarkley1019]

Yes... the standards for humanity in this society are very low... they produced trump...a product of American culture....

[@davidbenyehuda7618]

Shalom Family, this Brotha is on Code!!

[@mariacamilamachadoalmeida3292]

Getting to know Fanon in Southern Brasil because we taking a course on antiracism in public schools we teach we want to get along better with our own and students' racism and better understand our socially deprived public school students ....

[@mariacamilamachadoalmeida3292]

getting to know Achille Mbembe too....

[@cinnamonstar808]

35:56 -36:40 this is the original 'cancelled culture'

[@pearlbarkley1019]

Deintellectualizing Fanon???!!??? Insanity... The DEVIL at WORK!!!