Cameroonian critical theorist Achille 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 the established economic and political hierarchies of the capitalist system.
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Like a Tangled Mobile A susceptibility to the appeal of authoritarian irrationalism has become part of what it means to be a modern pers...
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Why are you standing on hot coals? So called civil society is hostile to every form of life. It's not just genocidal, it's geocidal.... -
What you’ve braided together here — Adler-Bolton and Vierkant’s articulation of surplus populations as both discarded and hyper-exploited,...
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