this popped into my feed like a happy car crash between foucault and fanon with a froth of hannah arendt on top. how could i not like it it!
it reminded me both of how much i enjoyed criticial theory and its epic uselessness. not least because i was forced, yet again, to conclude that the left seem either not to have read it or just use it as a handy soundbite, and the right, who appear much more familiar, to the point of actually employing many easily recognisable tropes, use it as a handy shibboleth or deny it altogether!
that said, it's massively easy to pick a recent event of state violence against a population that fits with mbembe's model
two bite sized intros. there's plenty links on the side bar if you want to explore further
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