Pathogens are socially & racially coded through the past and present of colonial relations, resulting in uneven configurations of health and blame

Read by Victoria Koski-Karell on the racialization of #cholera’s #pathogenicity in #Haiti: https://doi.org/pzvr

#Fanon #Wynter

"Reacting against the constitutionalist tendency of the late nineteenth century, Freud insisted that the individual factor be taken into account through psychoanalysis. He substituted for a phylogenetic theory the ontogenetic perspective. It will be seen that the black man' s alienation is not an individual question. Beside phylogeny and ontogeny stands sociogeny"
(Frantz Fanon, Black Skins, White Masks)

in depth discussion on #Fanon and sociogeny in Sylvia #Wynter: https://monoskop.org/images/0/04/Wynter_Sylvia_2001_Towards_the_Sociogenic_Principle_Fanon_Identity_the_Puzzle_of_Conscious_Experience_and_What_It_Is_Like_to_Be_Black.pdf