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... on Asia and the Pacific as a significant site where we witness a militarized convergence of these arrangements, the essay asks: How is debt a necropolitical regime for those impoverished, gendered racial, and colonized nations and subjects whose promissory notes must be fully repaid with interest? How has...

.... Settler colonialism depends on a mode of popular sovereignty that serves primarily as a diffusion of the necropolitical power of the colonizing polity rather than as a check on the tyranny of the state. Through a consideration of an assemblage of unlikely contemporary objects—Glenn Beck's 2013 keynote...

..., a fluke powerful enough to unravel his world entirely. What about worlds in which such experiences of loss and alienation reflect the steady state of social and political life? In the US context, these questions are being powerfully taken up in thinking about the necropolitical disregard for black bodies...

...After Globalism Writing Group Knitting. Poetry. Schoolyard sexuality. Trans-necropolitics. These are a few ways to “queer” extraction, a method of resource handling that never brings good news. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 extraction extractive capitalism queer sexuality...

... does not escape a certain conceptual belatedness with respect to those “repressed topographies of cruelty” that Achille Mbembe has identified in the formulation of “necropolitics.”6 On my reading, the formulation of necropolitics...

... University Press 2019 necrospeculation necropolitics postemancipation racial capitalism finance slavery redress black studies Who shall unlock the stocks and share? Break the bond the bind unbound—lay bare The Truth. —Lemn Sissay, “The Gilt of Cain,” 2007 The British government...

... of “overkill” as a way of apprehending a queer ontology that stands in contrast to the security of an LGBT identity. That the murdered were working class and largely people of color and/or trans/gender nonconforming marks this interpersonal violence as a restaging of larger iterations of necropolitical state...

... and compatibility of necropolitical will and conciliatory inclusion that seem emblematic of the current conjuncture, where the sustained project of attrition, devaluation, and disposability under way enacts dispossessive projects in the historical present. 32 Han, Letters of the Law ; Wong, Racial...

... Act toward peoples and communities most impacted by the pandemic is only one example of this intensified necropolitics. We focus here on conceptions and mobilizations of care and uncaring, and the catastrophe of the settler-capitalist state at this time. With all the talk about the need for self-care...

... strategies but within and through spaces of coalitional action. This approach to radical care and viable life encourages us to rethink how a necropolitics of trans life—lives marked as morally suspect and intrinsically disposable—coexists with a notion of trans vitalities that this article develops...

....” 4. Glick Schiller, Basch, and Szanton-Blanc, Toward a Transnational Perspective . 5. Patterson, Confounding Island , 128 ; see also Mbembe, Necropolitics . 6. Clarke and Thomas, Globalization and Race ; Thomas and Clarke, “Globalization and Race” ; Pierre, “Slavery...

..., pleasures, tactility, rhythms, echoes, textures, deaths, morbidity, torture, pain, sensation, and punishment, our necropolitical present-future deems it imperative to rearticulate what queer theory and studies of sexuality have to say about the metatheories...

... one is not per se doing something of value for the world. Further, because of amnesia, a tenuous relation to the past enables weaker public empathic connections to otherness; we become numb, removed from the urgency and sense of pain arising from being devalued. As a necropolitical perspective reveals...

... surfaces do not refl ect or signify something as much as they form assemblages with other machines, like panopticism, biopolitics, or necropolitics; and second, the future is now: the ambiva- lence of the present has given way to the anxieties of the present-future, this anxiety is itself...

... of a never again — to the place where biopolitics and necropolitics meet. In a recent argument, “When Killers Become Victims: Anti-Semitism and Its Critics,” Gil Anidjar draws on Lee Edel- man’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive and Elias...

... surveilled, the processes more mysterious still. Rosa-Linda Fregoso called the border “a dispersed hemispheric and global terrain,” which in her account and many others is governed by a necropolitical order, the subjugation of life to the power of death. 4 With special economic zones big capital got its...

... or neocolonial situations require a recalibration of such ideas. As Achille Mbembe observes, such venues develop and perfect oppressive, often deadly, biopolitical, or what he terms “necropolitical,” technologies. These are exercised...

... and self-­governance. 106 Christensen ∙ African Popular Crime Genres and Neoliberalism Hard-­Boiled Individualism and the Necropolitics of Neoliberalism In his study of the birth of the Francophone African crime novel, Pim Higginson posits that “by working in a single-­minded...

... . Amsterdam : VanTilt , 2018 . Mbembe Achille . Necropolitics . Translated by Corcoran Steven . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . McKittrick Katherine . “ Axis, Bold as Love: On Sylvia Wynter, Jimi Hendrix, and the Promise of Science .” In McKittrick , Sylvia...

..., and while once we had worked with the same students and were members of many of the same dissertation committees, increasingly students who studied with me were more engaged with critical theory, gender, sexuality, race, biopolitics, necropolitics, and digital technology. They were more engaged...