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Concerning Violence: White Charity, Necropolitics & Anticolonial Struggles
Lectured by Olajumọke Adeyanju Omonga & Judith Bahlig
Dear students, colleagues, and accomplices,
due to personal circumstances, we couldn’t announce the following class beforehand. Please bear with us.
This class is inspired by the documentary Concerning Violence. Nine Scenes from the Anti-imperialistic Self-Defense narrated by Lauryn Hill. We will watch the documentary together as a guideline to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth and other essays relating to anti-colonial struggles, which we are going to discuss retrospectively in class.
We will engage in strategies to unearth and break the silence of colonial violence in its documented excesses as well as in the murderous banality of everyday racism.
For this, we will read Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe at the beginning of the class to call forth interpersonal reflections on oppressive systems and power dynamics.
We welcome you to a collective reading of Fanon’s poetic decolonial artifacts and other texts_performances to nurture an understanding of the ongoing lethal racism in the postcolonial era as narrated by Achille Mbembe and jointly creating e.g. spoken word/poetry/music in the realms of empowerment and resistance.
While this introduction is written with dense keywords it is in our very interest to make sure we proceed with this class as a collective that indulges in less hierarchy of knowledge and takes into account different positionalities.
Rather than giving in to an idea of fully decolonized minds and bodies, we would like to collectively grasp ways of lifelong comprehension seeking to find ways of survival (in) the belly of the beast.
You may understand this as a creative space of mutual listening, (un)learning and tackling neocolonial violence through academia and arts.
Feel welcomed to pass by to our first lecture or mail us to figure out if you want to continue reliably, ask questions, offer critique or bring in ideas.
We can suggest places for your internship and puzzle together what kind of contribution provides a good opportunity for our processes and provide you the ECTS involved.
Also, we invite you to join the following event before the class will start:
Fanonian Ideas for Transformation: On Postcolonies, Art, and Political Imagination // Keynote Lecture by Lewis R. Gordon
October 1, 2016 | 8 pm @
SAVVY Contemporary | Plantagenstraße 31 | 13347 Berlin-Wedding
Concerning Violence Film Trailer: https://youtu.be/nLmYWL4TIEc
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