Hello everyone, it's James Lindsay and we are doing another episode of the new Discourses

podcast. I'm going to take you out of this kind of education loop that I've been in for a hot

minute here. I'm going to do at least one. We'll see how many I do as I read through this book.

I'm going to do a podcast on somebody that I first read when I was doing the post-colonialism

chapter of cynical theory. So this would have been having first read this guy maybe late 2018 or

early 2019 and I am sad to confess that when I read him I had no idea what I was reading. It just

seemed like a bunch of nonsense to me and now when I read it it's so glaring. I feel bad that I

haven't brought it up more. I am glad that I included it in cynical theories. Helen had mentioned

him and I wanted to make more out of him. But I've been asked gosh I don't know hundreds of times

please go through France Fanon on your podcast. Please go into his work. So France Fanon was a

French Algerian man, a psychoanalyst kind of in the sort of Marxist. He's really considered

the father of the post-colonialism movement and the decolonialism movement. He was a very angry man.

His analysis was heavily rooted in Marx but diverged from it. But what I would say now is that he

reproduced Marx in terms of colonialism as opposed to in terms of the usual private property or

whatever. And as a post-colonialist he was a major inspiration. We know that for Pellow

Ferrari. So if you've been reading the Marxification of education and you notice that I tie the decolonization

of the curriculum movement in education today through Pellow or to Pellow Ferrari and I mentioned

that that's actually kind of an explicit project of this guy Joe Kinchelow who was at McGill University

in Canada for a number of years until he died and that he was a Ferrarian who had taken up this

kind of decolonization of the curriculum movement quite a lot. What I've never really talked about

much though is that this root of all of this is in this guy France Fanon who whether you want to

say that he's the father of post-colonialism or not he's certainly the father of decolonization

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