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Jun 2024
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91 | Fanon’s Dialectic of Violence

Lillian Cicerchia, Owen Glyn-Williams, Gil Morejón, and William Paris
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In this episode, we tackle the concept of violence as it appears in the revolutionary and anticolonial work of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth. Throughout the episode we link together Fanon’s endorsement of revolutionary violence against colonial domination with his work as a psychiatrist. How could Fanon argue for the necessity of violence while be ... Show More
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