ABSTRACT
Instead of sublating the blackand colonized sexed racial protest, Fanon turns violence into the antag-
onizing force between colonization and liberation. Violence as an antagonizing force can be under-
stood as a process that attempts to bring the immediate violence of the colonial scene to a close by
inciting fighting fire with fire. Violence is of course a disruptive principle at heart, but in the context
of Fanon’s project for anticolonial struggle, there is the tabula rasa. Violence becomes ‘work’ that
shapes the potential for another world emerging out of colonialism. It allows the descent into the
‘real hell’ of the flesh, a flesh (Agathangelou, 2011;Wilderson, 2011) ‘associatedwith the traumatic
epidermilization of oppression and its reversal into contestation and revolt’ (Ziarek, 2005, p. 63).
This ingenious move by Fanon contests Manichaeism while drawing on decolonial violence to
rupture antagonism without turning it into the raw material of ‘evil’ or even containing it within
the ‘immanent, rational version of history’ (Ziarek, 2005, p. 63). Fanon says:
