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Ein sehr schönes, zart erzähltes, emotionales Buch. Ich wollte die Charaktere öfters mal schütteln damit sie nicht so viel aneinander vorbei reden und leben. Es beschreibt sehr gut, wie sehr wir manchmal in unserer Lebenswelt und Perspektive feststecken und nicht merken, wie wir damit andere Menschen verletzen können oder was diese gerade brauchen, oder auch was wir gerade brauchen. Und es geht um Videospiele, und es ist keine klassische romantische Liebesgeschichte, sondern es geht um tiefe Freundschaft 🥰

A very beautiful, delicate, emotional book. I wanted to shake the characters a few times so that they don't talk and live so much past each other. It describes very well how much we are sometimes stuck in our own world and perspective and do not realise how we hurt other people or what they need at the moment, or even what we ourselves need at the moment. And it's about video games, and it's not a classic romantic love story, it's about deep friendship 🥰

So many people reference Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, so many people talk of its influence, that I had to read it. And it didn't disappoint. Fanon's analysis of colonial and post-colonial dynamics is so sharp, so enlightening. He repositioned the frames to show us a different view of the world. I'm still absorbing it, but I'm asking myself what it teaches us about our current struggles against oppression.

When reading, I skipped the 62 pages of introductory material that other people wrote and went directly to Fanon's first chapter. Then after finishing Fanon's text, I went back to read the bits at the beginning I had skipped.

Cornel West adds a relatively brief and insightful introduction to this edition, summarizing the importance of the work, putting it in context, and relating it to our present time. Exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from an introduction.

This is followed by a 34 page foreword by Homi K. Bhabha from 2004. It's well worth reading after you've finished the book. A great analysis of the work.

Finally, Jean-Paul Sartre's original preface from 1961 is a 20 page denouncement of Europe, riffing off of Fanon's work but really it just feels like Sartre doing his own thing. I can't quite explain why Sartre's preface feels less connected to Fanon's work than Bhabha's forward, but that's how I took it.