Uprootedness can precede and enable becoming superfluous

Evidence

By refusing to multiply our elements, we take the risk of not setting a limit to our field; for it is essential to convey to the black man that an attitude of rupture has never saved anyone. While it is true that I have to throw off an attacker who is strangling me, because I literally cannot breathe, the fact remains solely on the physiological foundation. To the mechanical problem of respiration it would be unsound to graft a psychological element, the impossibility of expansion. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 106 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Mass statelessness and superfluity precede and enable the camps; Uprooting and statelessness define modern global society; Affirming the colonized self via rupture cannot resolve psychological damage — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 106 (+1 more)

Broader Connections