Racism

Summary

Dominique Pagani argues that racism is not primarily a matter of colour or race, but of social relations. He often returns to Lothrop Stoddard, whom he discovered through Domenico Losurdo: the inventor of the "underman", taken up by Rosenberg, ends up placing white socialists among the inferior races, which in his view shows that the criterion is political12. With Adotevi, he treats "nègre" as a concept rather than a colour: the Slavs, "the nègres of whiteness", Rimbaud as a "true nègre". The session arrives at the thesis that slavery creates racism, not the reverse3. He links the return of racism to unemployment and contrasts the emirs welcomed at the George V with other Arabs4. He therefore rejects the words "racialised" and "decolonial", which put ontological entities in the place of class5. Later, he connects this critique to that of identity conceived as substance: evil consists in seeing substance where there is relation, and the "pure Aryan" is the example of it6.

1. 1U for Übermensch4 Jan 2015
2. 2The silences of the media uproar: the Atlanticist re-Nazification21 Oct 2025
3. 3Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (1)17 Jun 2017
4. 4L'île du Peuple: the debate23 Jun 2015
5. 5“Red-browns”, “decolonial”: should we use the dominant language?31 Mar 2021
6. 6Imaginary identity15 May 2025

Introduction produced automatically from the 7 sessions on this theme, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the sessions.