SSP Reading club #2: Fanon and Camus

Posted on Nov 5, 2024

Location:

Tuesday 12 November 2024 from 12:45h to 13:45h we will get together1 to discuss the work of two authors:

  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon: chapter 1 “Concerning violence” (± 72 pages) link
  • Algerian Chronicles by Albert Camus, “Preface” (± 7 pages) and “The Nobel Prize Press Conference Incident” (± 2 pages) link

We believe that by reading and discussing these texts, we are simultaneously staying close to the original crisis that led to the formation of SSP, while at the same time recognizing that this crisis is happening in a larger historical and contemporary context of decolonization and armed struggle.2

  1. The location is still to be determined (within the AB). Updates will be shared here. ↩︎

  2. This selection has emerged informally/organically over the last few weeks. If you are unhappy with this selection of texts, feel free to join any of the upcoming SSP meetings to suggest other texts. ↩︎