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OBJECT RELATIONS | Lewis R. Gordon: Frantz Fanon and Black Conciousness

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The Importance of Health in a Sick Society

In 2015 you published what Fanon said which is this incredible introduction overview of his work and it's actually how I was introduced to your work. Some people will misunderstand when Fanon says the word sick society, he doesn't mean that every individual in the society is sick. The overall set of relations through which people are produced are problematic if you think about when you have an illness for instance it doesn't mean every cell in your body sick right there possibly that could be quite healthy even though you're ill. In a way he was in touch with Nietzsche's understanding of health which is health is not the absence of disease health is the capacity to respond to illness to disease so societies that fail to

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