"Frantz Fanon and The Wretched of the Earth": Lewis R. Gordon in conversation with Brad Evans

“A Century of Violence” - co-hosted with the Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Bath.
To coincide with the 100th year anniversary of The Philosopher, renowned philosopher of violence Brad Evans will discuss five of the seminal philosophical texts on violence from the past century.
Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (Les damnés de la terre, 1961) remains one of the most influential and provocative books on violence ever written. Perhaps more than with any other writer, with Fanon the idea of an objective and neutral study of the problem of violence breaks apart. Fanon critically attends to the wider historical developments of regimes of colonial violence and moves onto the ways it operates viscerally at the level of individual lives, quite literally marking out in an all-too-naturalising way the rulers from the subjugated. At its heart then is a meditation on the psychic life of violence and its lived and generational consequences, which continues to ask uncomfortable questions of us all.
This conversation with the renowned Fanonian scholar Lewis R. Gordon reflects upon the impact and continued relevance of his book, attending to dialectical logic of colonialism, the question of revolutionary violence, and the poetry that permeates Fanon’s unique thinking, while asking why Fanon’s question of “who actually constitutes the wretched of the earth?” remains as important as ever.
Lewis R. Gordon is Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, and Honorary President of the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. He is the author of numerous books, including "What Fanon Said" (2015). His latest book is "Fear of Black Consciousness" (2022).
Twitter: / lewgord
Brad Evans is a political philosopher, critical theorist, and writer whose work focuses on the problem of violence. He is the author of twenty books and edited volumes, along with over a hundred and fifty academic and international media articles. He is the founding director of the Centre for the Study of Violence (to be launched 2023) and holds a Chair in Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath.
Website: www.brad-evans.co.uk

[@anjumalvi3038]

Thank you for this great talk. One has to hear several times to reach the depth that Dr. Gordon offers while expanding on Fanon's work about being human, the other, living, violence, power, mythopoetic, belonging, home, freedom, humanity, etc. I am amazed at how much this talk tells us about Israel's occupation and genocide: "What colonialism does, is to create homelessness for the people.....home is to which you belong, what gives people the freedom for possibilities to live..." and this living is humanity as it allows us to have our multidimensionality, freedom, justice, and dignity.

[@andremiller7725]

Im new to Dr. Lewis Gordon. But I love the way he breaks down things. I'll be listening, learning and following our Scholar brother.

[@cheri238]

We all are the history of mankind.
Thank you, gentlemen, and especially Dr. Lewis Gorden 's of scintillating freshness of Frantz Omar Fanon's books of excellence for the interconnectivity we humans may become of awareness of one another with new insights.
A rainbow of colors one sees and hears as we dance to the musicality from the adventures of the past, with languages mixing of orators of poetry.
Hopefully, instead of making weapons of war, the use of the wrong side of the brain, therefore more disorders mentally behooves the breakdown of societies into black and white.
What is book knowledge?
What is the difference between the intellect and the mind?
What creates chaos and violence, and religious divisions for centuries?
What is "ego"? The next question is who are "we"?
What is psychological time?
I would love to hear the exchange of Dr. Lewis Gordon with Dr. Iain McGilchrist.
Alongside with the Krishnamurti Foundation teachers.
I strongly believe we need all to benefit and enlarge our world which begins with me.
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