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fanon: enjoying the duel

Frantz Fanon. The theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. An angry Isiah preaching to the choir? … …The repetitions, ambiguities, and facile rhetoric that mar certain chapters of The Wretched of the Earth are due largely to the circumstances … Continue reading

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fanon: attacking the high-minded

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: love thy neighbor but dispatch him first

Frantz Fanon and his theory of revolution. Fifty years on the Wretched of the Earth may aspire to be a guide to yuppies and hipsters of the perplexed variety… …Frantz Fanon wrote that the urban equivalent of the peasantry was … Continue reading

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fanon: stoking the flames of freedom

Frantz Fanon and the Wretched of the Earth. A prophet scorned. Fifty years after Frantz Fanon’s death, there is still an audience for this theorist of revolution. Question is, are the ideas relevant in an era of post-modernism?… …But prophets … Continue reading

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fanon: violence as cleansing agent

…He returned to Tunis, and, knowing that the remission he enjoyed from leukemia might end at any time, he finished his last and most important book, The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon worked twenty hours a day, interrupting his writing … Continue reading

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fanon: relegated to second class

Frantz Fanon. A prophet scorned… …When he had recovered, Fanon returned to Tunis and was appointed FLN ambassador to Accra. His job was to obtain arms and volunteers from Black African nations sympathetic to Algeria. He went at it with … Continue reading

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hemingway : the moveable lease

Much of it is about the troubling masculinity of post-war America. The sensitive issue of the inability to love. And its representation as non-aesthetic content. Yes, Hemingway is bigger than the sum of its parts. The Ernest Hemingway legacy has … Continue reading

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true grit and rough justice: wild west as arcades project

Charles Baudelaire incarnated, in his bohemian manner, the democratization of poetry. It was a new language that lacked an academic subtext; totally alien to he Academie Francaise to which he aspired. It was the language of the “flaneur” to which … Continue reading

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$#*! That’s real real gone

Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading

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Win one for the gipper: fetish for the gridiron

Win one for the Gipper. The advertising costs $3 million for a thirty second spot. Its deep in the red-zone of marketing. ….If Ronald Reagan as the Gipper was the symbol for a sport based on sportsmanship, morality and Christianity, … Continue reading

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