Mbembe Towards Death: Necropolitics

This video is about necropolitics (necropower), the means by which governments dictate those who live and those who die. It builds off the ideas of Achille Mbembe in his 2003 piece "Necropolitics." Beginning with an introduction to Michel Foucault's "biopower," the video delves into the variety of forms that the necropolitical may manifest in. In this video, that is the right to kill, the fear of death, death in life (social and civil death), and the exposure to corpses. The video concludes with an exploration into the relation between freedom and death and the question: what is the necropolitical of today?

Music: Lumen by Tony Stocker
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Timestamps:

00:00 || Introduction
00:57 || Biopower and the Taboo of Death
04:54 || Necropolitics and the Forms of Death
12:34 || The Freedom of Death
15:32 || Conclusion

Sources:

Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics," 2003.

Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 2018

Michel Foucault, “Society Must be Defended,” 1975.

Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, 1976.

Marina Gržinić "From Biopolitics to Necropolitics:"    • Marina Gržinić: From Biopolitics to N...  

Rosi Braidotti "Necropolitics and Ways of Dying:"    • Rosi Braidotti – Necropolitics and Wa...  

Berlant, Lauren. "Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)." Critical Inquiry 33, no. 4 (2007): 754-80. Accessed March 21, 2021. doi:10.1086/521568.

Christopher Lee, "The Necropolitics of COVID 19," https://africasacountry.com/2020/04/t...