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Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics"

Theory & Philosophy

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Necro Power and the Death Worlds That Emerge From It

With necro power, we lose control over our own life. In that way, suicide bombing as a form of martyrdom is a kind of active resistance to those logics. And again, i think that it's important distress that this isn't something that should be advocated for. I don't think thatbem is doing that. He is recognizing that it is a response to a form of control and power that is in itself reprehensible.

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