Wednesday, 16 February 2022

LeVine (On Mbembe)

‘Mbembe first described the role of extreme violence in the functioning of larger biopolitical orders as “necropolitics” – not merely a state’s “right” to kill and to organise people to be killed (as opposed to live), but to expose them to extreme violence and death and reduce entire segments of populations to the barest and most precarious existence. All in order to preserve…established economic and political hierarchies…’

Mark LeVine

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