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, or
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 to be enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis,
Mbembe draws on post-Foucault 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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