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61 | Frantz Fanon, Racism, and the Alienation of Reason (Patreon)

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In this episode, we take a deep dive into Frantz Fanon’s first book Black Skin, White Masks. We discuss his views on racism as a form of alienation and narcissism, assess that status of reason throughout his argument, and interrogate his emphasis on futurity over history. Throughout we defend his theory of social pathology and his embrace of reason and universal humanism. This episode should be a stimulating introduction to the anticolonial and revolutionary work of Fanon for both newcomers and experts!

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References:

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Richard Philcox (New York: Grove Press, 2008).

Frantz Fanon, Œuvres (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2011).

Frantz Fanon, “Racism and Culture,” in Toward the African Revolution, trans. Haakon Chevalier (New York: Grove Press, 1967).

Liam Kofi Bright, “White Psychodrama,” The Journal of Political Philosophy, 2023. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jopp.12290

Music: Vintage Memories by Schematist | schematist.bandcamp.com

Comments

What's Left of Philosophy

Comrade we would never do such a thing. Communism is from each according to his ability, to each according to his citation count.

Michael Badu

Ok. So only listened to half of this but the narcissism thing bugs me. I think Cicerchia hit the nail on the head when she talked about a societal whole which can only reference itself, and so posits universality based on that narcissism. then her point about the ‘inflated ego’ which is so fragile. Both those things to me sound like whiteness -the white society which continually sets the terms of these discussions (even when it thinks it’s not doing that) and white fragility which struggles to absorb what black peopl say about themselves (people always wanna tell us about ourselves, which is what Fanon also says, as you guys point out). This is why I like Ralph Ellison(who doesn’t fit, like most ‘real’ Black people/people full-stop) and why my fav hashtag of these times of unpheavel is #normalise listening to ——-people. My 2 Euros!

Michael Badu

Just to follow on from that one more point I forgot. The Who and the what responsible for the creation of the categories and continually benefits from them in terms of power relations matters. You can just say ‘oh wow, if we could only all hold hands and not be so narcissistic!’. If society can’t absorb/take what black people say about themselves because of its own fragility, then what can be expected of black people other than to turn inward on themselves?