{"id":10428,"date":"2016-10-17T21:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=10428"},"modified":"2016-11-07T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T02:57:29","slug":"concerning-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2016\/10\/17\/concerning-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerning Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can now watch G\u00f6ran Hugo Olsson’s complete documentary based on Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” for $3.99 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Watts: “Franz Fanon is a towering figure in the modern history of thinking about race, human emancipation and democracy in post-colonial states, and radical psychiatric practice. Born in 1925 in Martinique, he died in 1961 in the United States, and was buried in Algeria, a country in which he had lived and worked during the anti-colonial war of liberation. Frantz Fanon\u2019s short rich life weaved together two preoccupations: professional psychiatry and revolutionary praxis. Working in unison, each was put to the service of fighting human suffering and racism and to the goal of post-colonial liberation. Fanon\u2019s contempt for the post-colonial national bourgeoisie across much of Africa was withering and unreconstructed. His writing on the violence of colonial racism and on the productive role of violence in human emancipation was as controversial when The Wretched of the Earth first appeared in 1961 as it is today. Daring to produce a documentary \u2013 Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from Anti-Imperialistic Self-Defense \u2013 based loosely on this book and Fanon\u2019s ideas, and to take the topic of violence head on is either brave or foolish. Or both. Using archival footage from the wars of liberation in Angola, Mozambique and Rhodesia, Swedish director G\u00f6ran Olsson has his hands full.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can now watch G\u00f6ran Hugo Olsson’s complete documentary based on Frantz Fanon’s “Wretched of the Earth” for $3.99 here. Michael Watts: “Franz Fanon is a towering figure in the modern history of thinking about race, human emancipation and democracy in post-colonial states, and radical psychiatric practice. Born in 1925 in Martinique, he died in … Continue reading Concerning Violence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10429,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions\/10429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}