ABSTRACT
Conventional theories that argue in support of structures and anti-human projects are either
unwilling or unable to grasp disciplinary representation of the origins and evolution of the inter-
national order as constituted and constitutive of the darker side of modernity (Mignolo, 2000)
and imperial adventures past and present. Fanon problematizes the explanatory power of dialec-
tics and political philosophy whose dominant understandings feature the possibility of a trans-
formative human nature, as bankrupt in the face of the black and the colonized subject.
Following Fanon, at the ‘crux of modernity’s crisis is the dilemma of ‘how to represent the
Negro as being demonstrably human within the terms of the law’ and the dilemma of how to
articulate that body’ (Agathangelou, 2012, p. 452; Wilderson, 2011, p. 45) as bodies, selves,
and structures mutually constitute one another, albeit in a disjunctive manner. Fanon states:
‘If we want humanity to advance a step further, if we want to bring it up to a different level
than that which Europe has shown it, then we must invent and we must make discoveries’
(1961, p. 136).
