61 | Frantz Fanon, Racism, and the Alienation of Reason
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Zone of Non-Being
It's very strange to read the zone of non-being line in like a purely pessimistic mode. In order to do that you have to completely ignore the existentialist context, he says. Bourgeois capitalist colonial society is it only talks about essences. It just centralizes everything and You know it tries to essentialize you raceessentialize hierarchies essentialize what freedom is. When you start thinking that way it just all feels very claustrophobic - which is why Trepidov is so paranoid. There's no place to go Everything is already explained already. I can imagine reading that saying no, that's because the ontological problem goes even deeper than you realize or something So I
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