Showing posts with label Richard Pithouse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Pithouse. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 April 2016

Frantz Fanon: A democratic philosopher

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Richard Pithouse, Mail & Guardian If there’s a philosopher of the moment it is, by some distance, Frantz Fanon. This is not surpris...
Friday, 4 March 2016

The Fire this time

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Richard Pithouse, Mail &  Guardian In 1963 James Baldwin prefaced and ended The Fire Next Time , two essays on race in America, wit...
Tuesday, 6 October 2015

The Grahamstown launch of Lewis Gordon's "What Fanon Said"

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Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Book Launch: Lewis Gordon's 'What Fanon Said'

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Friday, 18 September 2015

They Die Out There: It Matters Not Where, Nor How

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Richard Pithouse, CounterPunch On Monday morning there was a protest, in the form of a road blockade, organised from a shack settlement...
Sunday, 9 August 2015

Seminar: Richard Pithouse on 'Frantz Fanon: Philosophy, Praxis & the Occult Zone'

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Monday, 27 July 2015

An Urban commons? Notes from South Africa

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Sunday, 5 July 2015

Why Fanon continues to resonate more than half a century after Algeria’s independence

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Richard Pithouse, The Conversation Algeria marks its 53rd year of  independence  from France this month. The bitter struggle for freedo...
Friday, 26 June 2015

Racial terror from Columbus to Charleston

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Richard Pithouse, Mail &  Guardian Since the 1920s, Charleston has been the name of a dance, a dance with roots in Africa, made whi...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Praxis & the Work of Building Counter-Power

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Richard Pithouse In the ‘70s and ‘80s the idea of praxis was often taken seriously in the process of building the organisations, moveme...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

South Africa in the Twilight of Liberalism

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Richard Pithouse, Kafila South Africa was supposed to be different. We attained our freedom, such as these things are, after everyone e...
Monday, 26 January 2015

No investigation, no right to speak?

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No investigation, no right to speak? Richard Pithouse In January last year I was in Harare for a conference organised by the people...
Thursday, 22 January 2015

On Not Reducing Racism to Apartheid

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Richard Pithouse, SACSIS We would be more effective at dealing with the endemic racism in our society if we didn’t relentlessly speak i...
Friday, 12 December 2014

Shifting the Ground of Radical Reason

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Richard Pithouse, SACSIS For some time now much of the left has either been alienated from actually existing popular mobilisation or un...
Monday, 8 December 2014

Constituent Power in the Modern World: A Brief Introduction

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Department of Politics & International Relations, Rhodes University Constituent Power in the Modern World: A Brief Introduction ...

'Choosing to be Free: The Life Story of Rick Turner' - A review

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Keniston, B., 2013,  Choosing to be Free: The Life Story of Rick Turner . Johannesburg. Jacana (276pp.; R220) Review...
Monday, 17 November 2014

Silencing the Present

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Silencing the Present Richard Pithouse In Silencing the Past Michel-Rolph Trouillot argued that when colonial power asserted that ...
Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Sisulu’s War of the Ages Begins

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Richard Pithouse, The Con In 2005, early in her in her first term as Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu announced that the state had r...
Monday, 6 October 2014

Escalating Political Violence in South Africa

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Richard Pithouse, Mail &  Guardian On Monday evening, not long after the sun went down, a man with a gun stepped out of the dark an...
Monday, 22 September 2014

Running with Biko: Exploring the relationship between the world of the mind and the current social crisis in South Africa

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