In fact, we may well be witnessing the almost definitive triumph of artefacts over...speech. We are about to outsource to information machines and technologies of calculation the bulk of the faculties human reason was initially supposed to embody. This is happening as all kinds of killing projects are tried out on the most vulnerable classes of the world’s population...The accumulation of inhumane brutalities meted by state and non-state apparatuses do not fail to include all countries, in particular those that are still committed to one form or another of techno-colonial occupation. As a geomorphic force, sovereignty today tends to reproduce itself through acts of fracturing and fissuring. In turn, fracturing and fissuring targets bodies, nerves, blood and brains, just as it does the entrails of the Earth itself. The coming together of these two forms of destruction (the destruction of the human body and the destruction of the body of the Earth) is what gives the concept of necropolitics its catastrophic weight.

Achille Mbembe