Revenge in colonial modernity

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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Colonialism is not only a thing of the past. It affects people all over the world, in the north and the south of our globe, every day. Colonialism can be many things: a structure of power, inequality, violence - but also a structure of feeling. In exciting conversations with academics, artists, journalists, and activists, we shed a critical light on colonialism's affective lives and afterlives. Together with them, we discuss the urgent struggles of our time and the different visions of how to decolonize our present. Find out more on our website: https://affect-and-colonialism.net