Cameroonian philosopher and political scientist (born 1957) · 1957
Appears in 1 video · 4 passages, 4 of them in depth.
Who is this?
Joseph-Achille Mbembe (; born 1957) is a Cameroonian historian and political theorist who is a research professor in history and politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economy Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is well known for his writings on colonialism and being a leading figure in new wave French critical theory.
1:13:19Intelligent and cultured, he, according to Pagani, takes up the dominant thought he denounces, constantly cites Agamben, and is the idol of the middle classes of Francophone Africa.
1:16:59BrutalismPagani reads a review and judges the terms describing an increasing brutalization of the world to be vague.
1:27:09BrutalismHis vocabulary is borrowed from the French doctors; he repeats the term "racialized."
1:29:15He criticizes reason and technology like Heidegger, without knowing anything about the latter's Nazism.
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