NYU Professor and filmmaker Manthia Diawara presents the keynote Fanon and Glissant: On De-Opacification and the Right to Opacity. In this session, he focuses on two theoretical concepts: de-opacification and the right to opacity, as deployed by Frantz Fanon and Edouard Glissant respectively. What did Fanon mean by the term ‘de-opacification’? How did he intend it as a tool of the liberation struggle and decolonisation? Is Glissant's demand for the right to opacity a response to Fanon’s and other thinkers’ over-reliance on a philosophy of transparency and existential dialectics? Is our consent to the opacity of the Other the best way of maintaining human and nonhuman diversity?