Comments on: Part I: Fanon’s Descent Under the Burden of the White Gaze http://percaritatem.com/2009/11/17/part-i-fanon%e2%80%99s-descent-under-the-burden-of-the-white-gaze/ Non intratur in veritatem nisi per caritatem. St. Augustine Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:14:25 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Cynthia R. Nielsen http://percaritatem.com/2009/11/17/part-i-fanon%e2%80%99s-descent-under-the-burden-of-the-white-gaze/comment-page-1/#comment-5443 Cynthia R. Nielsen Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:24:20 +0000 http://percaritatem.com/?p=1701#comment-5443 @ Dru Always good to hear from you! I encourage you to read Fanon's, _Black Skin, White Masks_, given your interests, you'll love it. @ Gregory: I don't think Fanon would necessarily deny that he is other to himself; however, when are treated merely as a res, a thing, being merely a "man among men" is quite attractive. Keep in mind that Fanon knows how to use rhetoric quite well--don't miss his irony. Who am I? I'm not what I was ten years ago, yet what I was 10 years ago is still some aspect of me. Nor do I know what I will be, but what I hope to be influences me to some extent now. Ask me tomorrow, and we'll see if we get a different answer. Cynthia @ Dru

Always good to hear from you! I encourage you to read Fanon’s, _Black Skin, White Masks_, given your interests, you’ll love it.

@ Gregory:

I don’t think Fanon would necessarily deny that he is other to himself; however, when are treated merely as a res, a thing, being merely a “man among men” is quite attractive. Keep in mind that Fanon knows how to use rhetoric quite well–don’t miss his irony.

Who am I? I’m not what I was ten years ago, yet what I was 10 years ago is still some aspect of me. Nor do I know what I will be, but what I hope to be influences me to some extent now. Ask me tomorrow, and we’ll see if we get a different answer.

Cynthia

]]> By: Gregory http://percaritatem.com/2009/11/17/part-i-fanon%e2%80%99s-descent-under-the-burden-of-the-white-gaze/comment-page-1/#comment-5442 Gregory Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:38:47 +0000 http://percaritatem.com/?p=1701#comment-5442 "I simply wanted to be a man among men...". No indication here that each of us is also Other to ourselves or, as Hegel would say (and endlessly repeated by Zizek), the 'mysteries of the Egyptians were a mystery to the Egyptians themselves'... No one is 'simply' a 'man among men'---Merleau-Ponty understood this better than Fanon, I think. But, really, Cynthia: who are you???? Posts, all stimulating, provocative and, above all, highly competent, on Augustine, Descartes, Hans-Georg G. and Rowan W.; and now Fanon: I am impressed and gratified .... really (I don't usually expect this from America)... “I simply wanted to be a man among men…”. No indication here that each of us is also Other to ourselves or, as Hegel would say (and endlessly repeated by Zizek), the ‘mysteries of the Egyptians were a mystery to the Egyptians themselves’… No one is ’simply’ a ‘man among men’—Merleau-Ponty understood this better than Fanon, I think. But, really, Cynthia: who are you???? Posts, all stimulating, provocative and, above all, highly competent, on Augustine, Descartes, Hans-Georg G. and Rowan W.; and now Fanon: I am impressed and gratified …. really (I don’t usually expect this from America)…

]]> By: dru johnson http://percaritatem.com/2009/11/17/part-i-fanon%e2%80%99s-descent-under-the-burden-of-the-white-gaze/comment-page-1/#comment-5441 dru johnson Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:55:34 +0000 http://percaritatem.com/?p=1701#comment-5441 Cynthia, This is a great! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I really like what Ponty does in Phenomenology of Perception, but I still endlessly struggle with prepositions about how we know through/with/as our bodies. This work of Fanon looks like a great pedagogical tool to get students thinking about embodiment and all the epistemological baggage that comes with it. Thanks again for pointing this out to us. Dru Cynthia,

This is a great! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I really like what Ponty does in Phenomenology of Perception, but I still endlessly struggle with prepositions about how we know through/with/as our bodies.

This work of Fanon looks like a great pedagogical tool to get students thinking about embodiment and all the epistemological baggage that comes with it. Thanks again for pointing this out to us.

Dru

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