The "LETTER 'NOT ABOUT COLONY' - Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)" discussion now on our YT channel
Visit our YouTube page and listen to the talk held on December 6, 2025 at the MAU, entitled “Letter ‘Not About the Colony’ – Frantz Fanon (1925–1961)”.
Participants included Jovan Bukumira, Research Associate at the Institute for Literature and Art; Seku Sidi Diavara, PhD candidate (Faculty of Political Sciences); Aleksa Nikolić, literary translator and researcher (Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad); Lazar Petković, independent researcher, philosopher, translator, and writer; as well as Cercle Frantz Fanon (Martinique), who participated via video address.
Moving between psychiatry and politics, between psychoanalytic practice and direct participation in the decolonial struggle, Fanon pointed to the far-reaching mechanisms through which the colonial subject is constituted and to the destructive effects of the colony’s collective unconscious. He believed that the path to liberation lay solely through purifying, regenerative violence. His ideas influenced both the development of postcolonial theories and the revision of classical Marxism, especially in relation to understanding colonial realities and the anti-colonial revolutionary struggles of the Third World. All of this contributed to the resonance of Fanon’s thought in our own context as well, beginning in the era of non-aligned Yugoslavia.
