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Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics"

Theory & Philosophy

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Sovereignty and the Use of Control

Gombin: sovereignty and how the use of control can be used to bring people down to what he calls bare life. What this is is just bringing people, stripping them of all identity and making them just a flesh and bone, essentially turning them into cattle. He wants to take that idea and expand it, and look at as well the history of the possibility of this kind of control.

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