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Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics"

Theory & Philosophy

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The Death That Lives a Human Life

Bambay turns to hegel, who thinks about death as a way by which people can open themselves up to the incessant movement of history. In beti, there is almost the necessity to drive things towards equilibrium where if there's too much excess, some needs to be taken out in order for the system to organize itself coher. And raceism figures into fuco's here in a way that i don't totally agree with what fuco gives us in terms of bio power and biopolitics.

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