Jeanette Ehrmann
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Jeanette Ehrmann
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Political Theory @Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Haitian Revolution, Democracy, Political Mothering & Memory Politics.
... system of knowledge…

PROUD FLESH:

That’s why they’re only interested in just a few pages of Black Skin, White Masks (1952).

SYLVIA WYNTER:

But they don’t want to go to the fundamental issue. Once he has said ontogeny-and-sociogeny, every discipline you’re practicing ceases to exist.
July 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
PROUD FLESH:

Isn’t it such a tragedy, what has been done to Fanon’s name? In the 1980s especially, when Fanon is revisited in academia in the West, it’s a real moment of… ignorant exploitation.

SYLVIA WYNTER:

An ignorant exploitation – to take what he had said into the terms of this Western...
July 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
C.L.R. James, Lectures on The Black Jacobins (1971)
May 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
... they are concerned about food, as they have every right to be. At twelve o'clock they shut down, everywhere is closed up till two. Archives close up, "St James" closes up, off to eat. Very fine. At two o'clock, I go back. I work. The archives close at five or six. I go home."
May 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A Book, Untitled
March 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM