Search Results for Achille Mbembe

...Agnieszka Tuszynska Abstract This article examines the politics of transgressive pleasure and desire in Claude McKay’s novel Romance in Marseille , as a response to what Achille Mbembe, departing from Foucault’s notion of biopower, has termed necropolitics. In the novel, the interlocking hegemonic...

...Zayla Crocker Abstract Bernard Rose’s 1992 film, Candyman , and Nia DaCosta’s 2021 remake of it use memorial rituals of naming and summoning that give life to Black memory and trauma. Through the use of Achille Mbembe’s work in Necropolitics , Christina Sharpe’s description of wake work in her book...

...Lenora Hanson Copyright © 2016 Regents of the University of Colorado 2016 C o n t a g io u s r e v o l u t io n a n d C o l o n ia l S ec u rit iza t io n Lenora Hanson In his 20 03 essay, "N ecropolitics," Achille Mbembe argued tha t biopolitics had failed to address the mass zones of death...

...Gabriele Lazzari Copyright © 2020 Regents of the University of Colorado 2020 Although the history of humanity is arguably the history of its global peregrinations, at no other time than today has migration so profoundly shaped our political imaginary and public discourse. As Achille Mbembe...

... curricula and canons. Likewise hydrocolonialism seeks to lay bare colonial constructions and representations of water and to undo these. The title of the article has a further postcolonial entailment, since it invokes Achille Mbembe’s “Provisional Notes on the Postcolony” (the earliest English iteration...

... of trauma theory” contra Eurocentrism, but his reading focuses solely on the mode of critique characters like Attila offer, not any alternative mode of conceptualizing life that Forna’s novel may enable. 24 Achille Mbembe has influentially theorized a foundational arbitrariness within postcolonial...

.... As Achille Mbembe has asked, “What does it mean to do violence to what is nothing?” 13 In this frame, Trump’s dehumanizing rhetoric is an early step in a process of ontological transformation to the status of the zero, which has preempted many genocides and which memory studies needs to find more...

... genesis in Ancient Greek and Roman practices. Sim ilarly, Achille Mbembe complicates the twentieth century provenance o f biopolitics and its death­ ly double, which he term s necropolitics, by locating its initial emergence w ith in the logic of European im perialism even as most of his argum ent...

... of biopolitics linearly and narrowly, as the ever-evolving power of making live and fostering life, Achille Mbembe asserted the primacy of necropolitics—the “subjugation of life to the power of death”—in the majority world: the historical and contemporary colonial worlds. 8 Whereas it is only in the metropole...

... essay “The Fact of Blackness” but ironically navigates toward Achille Mbembe’s death-haunted necropolitics to clarify McKay’s relatively sanguine portrait of sexual desire and fulfillment. For the Black Jamaican–turned–Black world novelist, Tuszynska claims, visions of unshackled sexual expression...

...: Thinking w ith ViriHo (New York: Routledge, 2014), 19-20. 64 St. Jam es's Chronicle or the British Evening Post, August 4-7, 1792. 65 Frantz Fanon, The Wretched o f the Earth, trans. Constance Farrington, pref. Jean-Paul Sartre (New York: Grove Press, 1963), 38. 66 Achille Mbembe, "N ecropolitics," trans...