Mario Love  (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
Frantz Fanon and the Right to Subjective Existence,
Through the Subjective Negation of the Self

Whether or not globalization as objective world-view indeed encompasses the totality of the experienced economic, cultural and political processes remains a vital question. It is believed that since the formation of the Treaty of Westphalia, these dynamics have been intertwined through paradigms solely based on subjective nation state representations which are as a consequence stratified through historical notions of global order. Consequently, the twentieth century represents a profound restructuring of the international system as well as a dramatic restructuring of notions of racial identity. This is due to the end of colonialism as both political and cultural machination. The work of Frantz Fanon is essential for understanding the relationship between perpetual modes of dominance maintained through cyclical historical periods of externally based nation state transformations. Fanon's theories concerning the experience of the "other" are significant in that they fundamentally call for us to critically examine whether or not globalization maintains elements of domination through an understanding that "post-colonialism" is a viable and tangible phase of history. Finally, if globalization represents a type of macro-egalitarian establishing of the "self" through nation state interdependence, the process which leads to the self-actualization of those formerly colonized must be understood through its attachment to the still relevant master/slave dialectic.