I have cut a few of the readings but subsequently made the readings we have longer. I think it is worth reading all of the Schmitt book (just 74 pages) and a significant portion of the McNeil book (about 160 pages). Sammy did a good job with Fanon so I think we can discuss the postcolonial context of these other readings without reading more of Wretched of the Earth. Both the McNeil and Schmitt readings employ materialist and ideational arguments for change. Try to identify when change is being driven by ideas, by material factors, or through the strategic interaction of ideas and material factors such as technology which is at the razor edge between materiality and human driven ideational change. See you next week.
McNeill-The Pursuit of Power
Schmitt-Notes on the Partisan
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