Fanon and Us: Us and Fanon

Abstract

We well know that the most efficient way to interrupt the germinal nature of a thought; that is, its fertility and the possibility that its depth is proportional to the fruits it generates is the inordinate praise, that is, its canonization as a synonym of curtailment of its interpellative and interpretive capacity. With Fanon (2014) there have been two movements regarding figure; both sterilizing and paralyzing: in the first place, the historical neglect in Latin American academic circles in prolongation of his classic Eurocentric epistemic dream, reactive political, rather than epistemic, we should say, and secondly, the most recent, the exaggerated ode that he expresses in the abundance of praise what the responsibility of thought refuses to analyze. Both are pernicious because they place their texts in the void of an interpretive etreparenthesis.