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Necropolitics (Paperback)
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Necropolitics (Paperback)
Series: Theory in Forms
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In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of
francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the
contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,
militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of
racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and
kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark
side---what he calls its "nocturnal body"---which is based on the
desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove
colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding
the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely
celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times
in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all
those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis,
Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and
race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to
explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism
might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to
encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with
whom to build a more just world.
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