Revenge in colonial modernity

The Affect and Colonialism Podcast - En podcast av Affect and Colonialism Web Lab

It is seen as one of the great achievements of European modernity to have cast out revenge from law and politics. The colonial narrative says: where revenge rules, and thus affect, modernity is absent. But is revenge actually outside of modernity or is it rather one of its blind spots? Today, we talk with philosopher Fabian Bernhard about the place of revenge in colonial modernity.

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