Tag Archives: Algerian Civil War

fanon: attacking the high-minded

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Dave

Frantz Fanon. The Prophet Scorned. Fifty years after his death, is this theorist of revolution still pertinent or are his writing a kind of surrealist fiction with himself as central protagonist? … …The final Fanonist influence concerns the search for … Continue reading →

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fanon: towards the mystique of violence

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Dave

…In 1956 the Algerian war, by then two years old, reached Blida and penetrated Fanon’s hospital. The police arrested some of his Algerian male nurses. Next came the turn of one of Fanon’s fellow doctors, a Frenchman who was tortured … Continue reading →