{"id":16854,"date":"2020-04-01T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=16854"},"modified":"2020-05-12T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:23:14","slug":"frantz-fanon-the-brightness-of-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2020\/04\/01\/frantz-fanon-the-brightness-of-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Frantz Fanon: The Brightness of Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VISIONS OF A BETTER WORLD

‘Fanon\u2019s thought is marked by an axiomatic commitment to an immediate and radical egalitarianism \u2013 including the recognition of a universal capacity for reason. It is shaped, in its deep structure, by a profoundly dialectical sense of the capacity for the human to be in motion. His thought, taken as a whole, did not waver from what Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire, the extraordinary surrealist poet, described as the obligation \u2018to see clearly, to think clearly \u2014 that is, dangerously\u2019.

Liberation must, Fanon insists, restore \u2018dignity to all citizens, fill their minds and feast their eyes with human things and create a prospect that is human because conscious and sovereign persons dwell therein\u2019. For Fanon, the restoration of dignity is not a matter of return. The journey towards what, in the last year of his life, in a letter written to the Iranian intellectual Ali Shariati, he called \u2018that destination where humanity lives well\u2019 is undertaken via a constant process of becoming and enlargement of the sphere of democratic reason. As Lewis Gordon notes, for Fanon, legitimacy is not a matter of offering proof of racial or cultural authenticity; rather, it emerges \u2018from active engagement in struggles for social transformation and building institutions and ideas that nourish and liberate the formerly colonized\u2019.

For the university-trained intellectual, Fanon poses a simple demand, but one that retains its radical charge almost sixty years later: to move beyond the ontological and spatial ordering of oppression and commit to a form of insurgent and democratic praxis in which \u2018a mutual current of enlightenment and enrichment\u2019 is developed between protagonists from different social locations.’ More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VISIONS OF A BETTER WORLD ‘Fanon\u2019s thought is marked by an axiomatic commitment to an immediate and radical egalitarianism \u2013 including the recognition of a universal capacity for reason. It is shaped, in its deep structure, by a profoundly dialectical sense of the capacity for the human to be in motion. His thought, taken as … Continue reading Frantz Fanon: The Brightness of Metal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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\/16854"}],"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=16854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16855,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16854\/revisions\/16855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}