Nice Work, Racism!
Just finished reading Black Skin, White Masks for the second time the other day. Ummm, why is this book not listed as a precursor to half of the theoretical work that appeared in the latter part of the twentieth century? Seriously: no Franz Fanon, no Michel Foucault. No Fanon, there wouldn't be a Deleuze. This dude basically rewrote the book on psychoanalysis, and he gets NO props for it - instead, he gets cloistered off into the corner and labeled "postcolonial studies", as though that was all his work fit into, Why did they do that? There MUST be a very good reason, hmmm, let's see.......oh yeah, it's because of RACISM. Thanks, racists! You guys rock!
Thus endeth the Planetarium rant of the day.
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The Algerian liberation movement has been the dirty little secret of French intellectualism for forty years.
Posted by: Adam | March 21, 2006 01:11 PM