Radical Philosophy Review

Volume 16, Issue 1, 2013

Critical Refusals, Part 1

Lewis R. Gordon, George Ciccariello-Maher, Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Frantz Fanon, Fifty Years On
A Memorial Roundtable

Originally delivered to mark the fiftieth anniversary of both Frantz Fanon’s death and the publication of his seminal discourse on decolonization, The Wretched of the Earth, these remarks seek to offer a preliminary outline of Fanon’s continuing relevance to the present. Conceptually spanning such touchstone elements of Fanon’s thought as sociogeny, race, violence, the human, and the relation between decolonial ethics and decolonial politics, the authors turn our attention to diagnosing the neoliberal face of contemporary coloniality/modernity and contributing to movements from the Arab (or North African) Spring to the Occupy movement, from Philadelphia’s “flash mobs” to the new Latin American Left.