ABSTRACT
Shannon Brincat is a Griffith University Research Fellow in Brisbane, Australia. He is editor of
the three-volume series Communism in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2014) and was a co-editor of
Critical Theory in International Relations and Security Studies: Interviews and Reflections
(Routledge, 2012). He is also the co-founder and co-editor of the journal Global Discourse.
His current research focuses on recognition theory and cosmopolitanism in the context of
ABSTRACT This article sets up a conversation with Frantz Fanon about his stretching of
dialectics. Against a backdrop where multiple dominant epistemologies of political theory
and international relations presume and are shaped by a segregation of the world into
anarchy and the desire for an ordered global, Fanon’s reading of imperialism’s effects in the
Wretched of the Earth is of utmost relevance. First, Fanon’s work allows us to think dialectics
along with ‘globality’ and to confronting dominant presumptions about a Manichean world:
anarchy, order, and ‘bodies.’ He focuses on colonization and the White-Black relation and
the radical dehumanization of the Other (Black, colonial slave, non-European, etc.). Second,
his engagement of colonial violence pushes him to stretch dialectics, reactivating the
‘partially neutralized antagonisms.’ In addition, Fanon wants to think revolutionary practice
as a kind of internationalism which will reunite into its own humanness in an open-ended-
way-a world where no human being will be subject to dehumanization. I conclude with some
ideas on what a revolutionary thinking about a revolutionary subjectivity, movement and
thought entails for revolutionary struggles and dialectics today.
