Come on now. How U know AIME CESAIRE inspired mah latest Book: SPITESTAMENT?? NEGRITUDE er day, ALL day. The man was an ICON. And one of mah OGs for how I writes. So this whole post put a roast on Culture. Preshate Ya for always STAYING deeeep.
Thank you and yes, he is wonderful! I am turning to him, Cabral and others of my foundational thinkers about anticolonial, anticapitalist struggle to help inspire my imagination because This Mess We're In with the technologist Really Ain't It!!!
Love him. "Black Skin, White Mask," especially, because it is so deeply existential and psychological. And I love that even as he wrote "Wretched of the Earth" he was about healing always, he was a doctor, a war time doctor. I also relate to him a lot for the island identity, the in between, creoleness of it all.
Come on now. How U know AIME CESAIRE inspired mah latest Book: SPITESTAMENT?? NEGRITUDE er day, ALL day. The man was an ICON. And one of mah OGs for how I writes. So this whole post put a roast on Culture. Preshate Ya for always STAYING deeeep.
Thank you and yes, he is wonderful! I am turning to him, Cabral and others of my foundational thinkers about anticolonial, anticapitalist struggle to help inspire my imagination because This Mess We're In with the technologist Really Ain't It!!!
Whats ya take on FANON??
Love him. "Black Skin, White Mask," especially, because it is so deeply existential and psychological. And I love that even as he wrote "Wretched of the Earth" he was about healing always, he was a doctor, a war time doctor. I also relate to him a lot for the island identity, the in between, creoleness of it all.
Heavy. Him and Cesaire were tight. NOTEBOOK of a RETURN to MY NATIVE LAND i take with me on all travels.
Love this piece Janine! Love how you said we as peeple are apt to find a freedom where none so unnaturally abounds. Poignant n precise.
Beautifully stated! Human downgrading is such a terrifying concept, and yet we see it all around us and never realise it -
we are participating in a great experiment, to see how far we are willing to let the digitizers go.
Wow. Thank you for this essay and the questions at the end, Janine.