Two Sixtieth’s for Fanon
Frantz Marguerite Victor Fanon, whose adopted middle name was “Omar” during his participation in the struggle for national liberation in Algeria, died on December...
Is Language a Battlefield?
It is old hat to emphasize that language is political. Nowadays we know that everything is political. Language is political, translation is political, and...
Barrett Holmes Pitner’s “The Crime Without a Name”
I recently had the good fortune of a live-streamed New York Public Library conversation with philosopher and journalist Barrett Holmes Pitner. The focus of...
Gaze
I am watching the news with my brother-in-law on a drizzly October evening at his house in Yvelines, southwest of Paris. He stands against...
On Revolutionary History and the Freedom Project: A Review Essay of Julius Scott’s The...
Julius S. Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution was rightly bestowed with the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book...
A Reply to Paget Henry’s “Self, Language and Metaphysics: A Review of Teodros Kiros’s...
Paget Henry wrote a review of my book Self-Definition: A Philosophical Inquiry from the Global South and the Global North. I offer here some...
Ethics of Freedom, Politics for Decolonization: Thoughts on Devin Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism
Devin Zane Shaw’s Philosophy of Antifascism offers an account of the normative basis for militant or insurrectionary antifascist praxis, concluding with a reflection on...
On Antique Spoons: Chapters on Love, Loss and the Politics of Memory
At the release of the Vuma Levin Quintet’s acclaimed CD The Spectacle of An-Other in 2015, Sihle Mthembu had this to say in The...
Jean-Paul Sartre: Exalting Black Thought and Living Existentialism
For progressive readers, existential philosophy reaches its apogee when it serves as the theoretical foundation for progressive political commitments and engaged activism. Existential thought...
Changing Identities: Are Race and Gender Analogous?
Analogies don’t compare two identical things—if they did, they wouldn’t be analogies. Analogies compare things similar in certain important respects. Analogies can illuminate latent...