{"title":"Zahi Zalloua","description":"\u003cp\u003eZahi Zalloua's work explores the intersections of philosophy, psychology, and social theory, offering profound insights into resistance, identity, and the self. His writings engage critically with figures like Fanon and Žižek, challenging readers to reconsider notions of violence, existence, and oppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese thoughtful texts invite reflection on complex political and philosophical questions, making them essential reading for those interested in contemporary debates around ideology, subjectivity, and the dynamics of power within human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fanon-zizek-and-the-violence-of-resistance-by-zahi-zalloua-9781350513273","title":"Fanon, Žižek, and the Violence of Resistance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn a novel pairing of anti-colonial theorist Frantz Fanon with Marxist-Lacanian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Zahi Zalloua explores the ways both thinkers expose the violence of political structures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis inventive exploration advances an anti-racist critique, describing how ontology operates in a racial matrix to produce some human bodies that count and others (deemed not-quite- or non-human) that do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor Fanon and Žižek, the violence of ontology must be met with another form of violence, a revolutionary violence that delegitimises the logic of the symbolic order and troubles its collective fantasies. Whereas Fanon begins his challenge to ontology by exposing its historical linkages to Europe’s destructive imperialist procedures before proceeding to “stretch” Marxism, along with psychoanalysis, to account for the crushing (neo)colonial situation, Žižek premises his work on the refusal to accept the totality of ontology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause of these different points of intervention, Fanon and Žižek together offer a powerful and multifaceted assessment of the liberal anti-racist paradigm whose propensity for identity politics and aversion to class struggle silence the cry of the dispossessed and foreclose radical change. Avoiding contemporary separatist temptations (decoloniality and Afropessimism), and breaking with a non-violent, sentimentalist futurology that announces more of the same, Fanon and Žižek point in a different direction, one that eschews identitarian thought in favour of a collective struggle for freedom and equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000619122924,"sku":"9781350513273","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/192d336975b803efb26f8e0aea7fdf0a.jpg?v=1763323902"},{"product_id":"to-exist-as-a-problem-by-zahi-zalloua-9781350559011","title":"To Exist as a Problem","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the first pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Souls of Black Folk\u003c\/i\u003e, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on the question, “How does it feel to be a problem?”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this profound response to that question, Zahi Zalloua endeavours to think through the shared Black and Palestinian experience of being racialised as a problem. Zalloua argues that today’s anti-Blackness is not a lingering feature of a regrettable past that only occasionally manifests its ugly face. Rather, anti-Blackness permeates white civil society. Black being stands for the anti-human, its being is barred and degraded. And while Black being denotes criminality, Palestinian being denotes terrorism – a problematic being produced by Orientalism and used to legitimise oppression. Both the Black and Palestinian are framed as existential threats that undermine the very structures of white and Zionist dominance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Exist as a Problem\u003c\/i\u003e provides a searing critique of such assumptions, arguing that Blacks and Palestinians \u003ci\u003edo\u003c\/i\u003e exist as a problem, but a different problem than the one dictated by the petrifying white and settler gaze. They exist as a threat because the mechanisms of structural racism make them so. In order for racism to thrive, they must be othered in the profoundest sense. 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