But quickly Fanon’s assimilationist illusions were destroyed by the gaze of metropolitan racism both in France and in the colonized world. In contrast, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) born in Martinique into a lower-middle-class family of mixed-race ancestry and receiving a conventional colonial education sees the technologies of control as being the white colonists of the third world.įanon at first was an assimilationist thinking colonists and colonized should try to build a future together. Both books’ writers come from vastly different perspectives and this shapes what both authors see as the technologies that keep the populace in line.įoucault coming out of the French intellectual class sees technologies as prisons, family, mental institutions, and other institutions and cultural traits of French society. Fanon’s book, “The Wretched of the Earth” like Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish” question the basic assumptions that underlie society.
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