Red Medicine cover image

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

Red Medicine

00:00

The Importance of Institutions

I'm just thinking about the idea of building institutions sometimes maybe feels like quite a grand thing you know but I'm always struck by the way in which that's not really the case yeah. People don't understand what an institution is because there's a form of fetish of materiality okay and that's been imposed upon us, he says. He points out that if people give up on the project that they bring to those buildings you can have ruins you can have shells the buildings are thereYou could say the actual this is why in the Fair Black Consciousness book when I talk about institutions states politics and so forth I point out for instance that a city is not the urban buildings a city is a

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app