In conversation with Achille Mbembe

by Paul Gilroy and Achille Mbembe

25 June 2020

, author, commentator and philosopher, addresses his recent work The Universal Right to Breathe and Brutalisme in the context of the racial disparity of deaths and racially inflicted violence; speaking on the power听of witnessing in preventing others from being expropriated of听their breath, and the significance of respiration at the beginning and end of life.

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This conversation was recorded on 17th June 2020.

Speakers: Paul Gilroy, Director of the 果冻影院 Sarah Parker Remond Centre 听// 听, Research Professor at the Wits Institute For Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg听
Producer and Editor:听Kaissa Karhu
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