The Brotherwise Dispatch – VOL.2, ISSUE #3, JUNE–AUGUST/2010
This issue, our attention is drawn to the ‘geonationalist’ implications of essays by Richard Pithouse, Slavoj Zizek and Jean Baudrillard. Fanonist humanism is examined by Pithouse, as Zizek looks at how western imperialism successfully exploits genuine concern for human rights, while Baudrillard takes on globalization and its relation to structural-inert violence.
In the face of the often pervasive influence of western imperialist globalization, those who seek to confront oppression have but one recourse; the explicit development of a geonationalist consciousness from which to initiate and engage in emancipatory praxis. By geonationalism is meant a socio-political consciousness which recognizes the borderless imperative and transcendent character of our shared humanity; a humanity which can no longer be limited to or held in check by the idea that the 'nation-state' is the ultimate horizon of historical change. Nationalism is dead.
Our JUNE/AUGUST 2010 issue also marks the debut of our BROTHERWISE FIVE series of interviews during which the BROTHERWISE DISPATCH will be interrogating intellectuals, artists and activists with five probing questions to the delight of our readers. We begin the BROTHERWISE FIVE with Susan Buck-Morss, professor of political philosophy and social theory in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Our interview focused almost specifically on her recent book HEGEL, HAITI and UNIVERSAL HISTORY which has tremendous geonationalist undertones.
Peace,
-A. Shahid Stover – Editor-in-Chief