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Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics"

Theory & Philosophy

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The State of Exception

The state of exception is a moment in which laws are suspended to enact more stringent laws. The law r the rights of the people, were suspended so that control could be better exerted over them as as people. A gombon's thought of the state of exception turns to the work of a Gombon.

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