No Lords A-Leaping: Fanon, C.L.R. James, and the Politics of Invention

Humanities

David Marriott¹ 

[1]History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, CA 95064, USA

[2] E-mail

关键词: Frantz Fanon;    C.L.R. James;    Hegel;    will;    invention;    Lenin;    sovereignty;   

DOI  :  10.3390/h3040517

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

What happens to Fanonism when, instead of resistance or liberation, it becomes a discourse of invention? What happens to Fanon’s critique of colonialism and his imagining of a decolonial future, when that critique and imagining are staked not on the refusal of racial humanity itself (in the sense of an appeal to a “new humanism”…), but in the sense that Fanonism itself, as such, would be a discourse and reading of invention? In this essay I compare Fanon’s reading of invention with that of C.L.R. James’s reading of spontaneity in Notes on Dialectics.

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