Fanon vs. Hegel

In this episode, I outline Fanon's criticisms of Hegel's 'Master/Slave' dialectic.

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[bravovince]

Deleuze declaring "there are no more masters, only slaves controlling other slaves" makes a lot more sense after watching this

[lilijovic-peu]

I have an essay on Red Skin White White Masks due tomorrow! The timing of this series is uncanny

[jacavanheesch]

its weird how extremely intelligent people often still think in these extremely narrow universalist frameworks where everyone is expected to act in one way or another based on their role, as if people arent all different in their personality and will not react drastically different from one another based on their roles or environments.

[numbersix]

David refutes Hegel's conjecture with example of masters who "...enslave people to attain a higher order of being." Sounds frighteningly alienated to me. Unless this is a higher order in the sense of the material conditions necessary to reproduce their horrible selves. And an elaborated culture that supports their evil. That would Fanon's sense, would it not? The material conditions that liberate the individual from Marxian "necessity" and enable individual choice, and freedom. And yet the rulers are also ruled by necessities of a different kind. The alienation, trivial pursuits, and distorted apprehension of reality are what Hegel is referring to as the natural oppression of the master. It's spiritual alienation.

[caiasmith]

Have you considered covering la frontera?

[nowhereman]

We really need to just abolish the subject/object relation and self identity already. Hegel was wrong, this has caused nothing but harm.