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Philosopher (world), political thinker (world). Statements and messages made from this account reflect my views only, not UConn's & other institutions'.

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LEWIS GORDON
1 year
#BlackExistentialism_and_DecolonizingKnowledge #WritingsOfLewisRGordon Advanced copy. Scheduled publication: 13 July 2023
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
#Fear_of_Black_Consciousness arrived in the mail today. Official publication on Jan. 11, 2022. Audio:
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3 years
#FrantzFanon became an ancestor 60 years ago. It's strangely poignant that #JuliusScott , author of THE COMMON WIND, which won the Fanon Outstanding Book Award, joined him among the ancestors this morning.
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
A site popped up listing me as "influenced" by Heidegger. It would be a good idea to read my work. I really, really can't stand Heidegger.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
Storming the Capitol Building is not a "privilege." It is LICENSE afforded a white insurrectionist mob under the shield of racism. One has the privilege of doing what is right; a license protects one from accountability for wrongful actions. White supremacy is a white license.
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LEWIS GORDON
9 years
There is no "refugee crisis." There is a denial of reparations to the people suffering from colonial and destabilization policies.
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
#DrucillaCornell , 16 June 1950 - 12 December 2022.
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
I'm pleased to announce that Darian Spearman defended his doctoral dissertation, "Myth, Meaning, and the Foundations for an Africana Philosophy of Myth," in front of an enthusiastic audience of 49 witnesses at UCONN. DwA nTr, Mazal tov, congratulations, Dr. Spearman!
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
New Faculty in Social Justice Bring Diverse Voices to UConn via @UConn
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
US Picador Paperback of #Fear_of_Black_Consciousness just arrived.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
On #WhiteGuilt : So much white guilt around these days. We should remember, however, that guilt without learning is pointless, and learning without action is empty.
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LEWIS GORDON
10 years
Andy Singer's wonderful cartoon critique of #WarOnTerror and #WarOnDrugs . http://t.co/dVUV4fj3ln
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LEWIS GORDON
1 year
Many sessions on this past week's workshop on Fanon & phenomenology had me thinking about this excellent article on decolonial and phenomenological reductions by Tom Meagher. Just click "show document" to read it.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
May be of interest to those interested in decolonizing philosophy.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
Some assistance from philosophy to help break up novel coronavirus-spreading parties at college and university campuses
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
Decolonial critique withstanding, the truth be told: I just love any excuse to cook.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
As #DuBois argued, the double standards of American justice, saturated with racism, makes white people deputies of the state. That is why the 2nd Amendment is a sham. Only white people really have that right. #PoliceViolence against blacks versus whites bearing arms prove this.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
Thanks to all of you who sent such wonderful greetings my way in celebration of my completing 58 rotations of our tiny planet around its sun.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
#EpistemicRacism has been taking a clever form of passive aggression among Europeans. When a white U.S. academic or activist speaks, white Europeans listen and analyze their arguments; when those of color do so, many white Europeans respond: "that sounds American...."
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
#FanonAt95 : The Caribbean Philosophical Association will be hosting a virtual event each day on Frantz #Fanon from July 1, 2020 leading up to his 95th birthday on July 20, 2020.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
The rhetoric of a "divided USA" is saturated with bad faith. Black, Brown, and Indigenous voting patterns are overwhelmingly clear. The "divide" is among whites, with an unfortunate majority of whites (often about 60 percent) against the rest. Add "white men," and it's worse.
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LEWIS GORDON
9 years
Much of #Fanon 's previously unpublished writings, including his dissertation, have now come to print in this volume:
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LEWIS GORDON
6 years
Though there is no group of people who get everything right, we should bear in mind there are some who got things seriously wrong and, worse, impose through conquest their misdeeds on the lives of others as the standard of what the rest of us are to become.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Next up: Lewis Gordon with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: The Revolutionary Act of Black Consciousness
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LEWIS GORDON
9 years
#Fanon realized that #colonialism was a crime scene with evidence everywhere, admission nowhere, and the "authorities" were guilty parties.
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LEWIS GORDON
5 years
A flaw in the demographics of hate crimes is that they depend on being reported to the police & mostly white authorities whom Black, Indigenous, and Latinx peoples don't trust. Why? Seeking their help is dangerous. Thus, hate crimes against these groups are vastly underestimated.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
#bellhooks has joined the ancestors. As the eulogies grow & reflections continue, an underlying thread in her writings on dignity & freedom, & the conversations she had among those of us who knew her personally, is, poignantly & simply: love.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Hey, All, here is the new Caribbean Philosophical Association website:
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
#Police & #Pelosiattack : So, armed police respond to a white man attacking another white man with a hammer, and they bring the attacker in... alive.... Now, imagine them walking in on a black man or a black woman attacking anyone with a hammer....
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Something to check out on May 17th at 7 PM EDT / 4 PM PT for those interested in discussions of #Afropessimism
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
UCONN-Storrs is conducting a cluster hire search for 4 tenure-track assistant professors (in English, Languages & Literature, Philosophy, & Political Science) in #AntiracismStudies .
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LEWIS GORDON
6 years
In 1825, Haiti Paid France $21 Billion To Preserve Its Independence -- Time For France To Pay It Back via @forbes
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LEWIS GORDON
1 year
Sinéad O'Connor
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1 year
Appreciation to @sayandey89 & Rozena Maart for selecting this collection of my essays, interviews, & letters they deemed useful for their students in India, South Africa, & beyond. Publication scheduled for a month or so from now.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
As actual #love is a form of elation in the freedom of another or others, I often wonder about people whose avowed love for animals is actually a statement of their misanthropy in which they can only have relationships with what they can control through cultivated dependency.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
This talk, "A Short Critical Reflection on Critical Race Theory," takes place on Wednesday, 21 October 2020 at 11:20 AM South Africa Standard time
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
At this point humanity is struggling with two pandemics: COVID-19 and the rash of right-wing dullards whose lack of imagination and cruel hearts are best suited for dysfunction than the flourishing of life and virtues of courage and integrity.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
Reservoirs, ponds, lakes, after 11 months of the long haul, it's great to walk. Our little speck of dust in a cloud of dust harbors life and is thus, at least for us, a wondrous planet.
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LEWIS GORDON
1 year
"Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge with Dr. Lewis Gordon" (Chasing Leviathan) #podcast (available on all major podcast networks if you'd prefer to listen to the polished audio)
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
The expression " #PoliceBrutality " doesn't work. It legitimizes the use of force followed by a debate on its degree. We should call it what it is: #PoliceViolence , #PoliceIllegitimateUseOfForce , #PoliceRacism . This enables us to question illegitimate use of force.
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LEWIS GORDON
5 years
The rhetoric of capitalism as a crucial feature of modern life offers many contradictions. Among them is that one is supposedly born with a right to life. But then one must supposed "earn a living." Doesn't the latter forfeit the former? Shouldn't one ADD to a living?
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
新年快乐 !
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LEWIS GORDON
8 years
Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice dismiss Benghazi as just a “stupid witch hunt” via @dailynewsbin
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
Robin Kelley: What Kind of Society Values Property Over Black Lives?
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Speaks for itself.
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3 years
New Books | Decolonising freedom
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Yes, #FrantzFanon was born 96 years ago on this day.
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LEWIS GORDON
8 years
#FeesMustFall : The demonization of S.A. students struggling for what they are in fact owed and elites have already received is outrageous.
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LEWIS GORDON
6 years
#SamirAmin : Shifting the Geography of Reason
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
My Penguin Random House edition arrived from the UK! Looking forward to January 17th (Monday), 2 PM EST / 7 PM GMT, virtual conversation with Kehinde Andrews:
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Continued thanks to Paul Gilroy, Isaac Shub, Tobi Kassim, Jamaica Kincaid, and Hortense Spillers for last week's conversations. Next: this Monday, January 17th, at 2 PM EST/7 PM (19:00) GMT, a conversation with Kehinde Andrews for The Philosopher:
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Tonight, Tuesday, January 25th, at 9 PM EST / 6 PM Pacific Time: Lewis Gordon with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: "The Revolutionary Act of Black Consciousness"
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LEWIS GORDON
1 year
#Fanon on #Violence , today at 2 PM EDT / 11 AM Pacific / 7 PM in the UK
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
#Fear_of_Black_Consciousness : January 14th (Friday), 7 PM EST, Harvard Bookstore, in conversation with #JamaicaKincaid .
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LEWIS GORDON
7 years
It is astounding how recent developments in this area of philosophy are a century behind phenomenology in Europe and transcendental philosophy in India:
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
The right, from neoconservatives to alt-right (i.e. contemporary fascists), and neoliberal elites have been waging a war against dignity, freedom, & life across the planet. The "war" is now not only from the effects of a deadly virus but also the people's fight FOR #Democracy .
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LEWIS GORDON
6 years
Something to bear in mind from Frantz #Fanon : There is only one form of nonviolence most settlers, if not all, would accept, and that amounts to maintaining the status quo. The continued slaughtering of Indigenous and First Nation peoples don't register as "violence."
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Last night dropped to 17 degrees Fahrenheit / -8.3 Celsius. So, I made soup. Specifically, a Jamaican-style butternut squash chicken soup with carrots, turnips, many onions, celery, thyme, Spanish oregano, allspice, habanero peppers, coriander, kosher salt, and black pepper.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
#SCOTUSConfirmation , #KetanjiBrownJackson 's remaining civil, with dignity and grace, in the face of the incivility of Senators #TedCruz & #JoshHawley (among others) is extraordinary. She's not only 4 times more qualified but also 4 times the better human being.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
We live in times when it is increasingly difficult to be an adult.
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
Aye! I'm in Montreal at Saint-Denis Street. Right-wingers marching. As ever, all "anti." No ideas. Only know what they're against. Never learning from history.
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LEWIS GORDON
3 years
Among memories from Rhode Island years: Paget Henry and Georg Lamming coming over for dinner conversations.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
Lots going on this Thursday, 15 October 2020. This one is at 2 PM EDT / 19:00 BST
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
Webinar dia 14 de março
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LEWIS GORDON
8 years
Looking for #MichelleObama as future senator from Illinois and eventual candidate in U.S. Presidential elections in....
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LEWIS GORDON
9 years
#CitationalApartheid : Only citing white authors, even when the source of the ideas are writings of blacks and other scholars of color.
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
Welcome to #UCONN , Professors Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Philosophy) and Celinés Villalba (Literatures, Culture and Languages)!
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
Operation "Rawhide" continues. DwA nTr, mazal tov, congratulations, Greg Doukas ( @GregoryDoukas ), on defending your doctoral dissertation,"Political Responsibility in Tumultuous Times," on 4/5/2022!
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
This essay is part of today's discussion in Frieda Ekotto's seminar for the @caribphil 's Summer School 2022. Long Read | The joy of Steve McQueen's 'Small Axe' via @NewFrame_News
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LEWIS GORDON
8 years
Dear President #Obama , a cop could choose not to be a cop. A black kid is not afforded such a luxury when he or she walks out the door.
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LEWIS GORDON
4 years
If you are Black, you are less likely 1. to get tested for COVID-19 when requesting it 2. not to have a preexisting condition 3. to be able to work from home if employed 4. to have health insurance 5. not to be harassed by law enforcement for wearing a mask 6. not to die
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LEWIS GORDON
5 years
I was just informed that the paperback (and thus more affordable) edition of this book I co-edited with Fernanda Frizzo Bragato is now in print.
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LEWIS GORDON
2 years
DwA nTr! Mazal tov! ¡Felicidades! Congratulations, Miguel/Michael Monahan! @caribphil
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LEWIS GORDON
6 years
On #capitalism : A system that prioritizes financial profit ultimately rejects ethics (except, of course, when it is marketable). Empirical data from the past three centuries amount to the empowerment of scoundrels at the expense of all.
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LEWIS GORDON
8 years
Remember: " #SlaveStates "=" #RacistStates ." "Protecting" them=protecting #SystemicRacism :
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