ACHILLE MBEMBE AND THE NOTION OF NECROPOLITICS

• Autor(a) principal: Bontempo, Valéria Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sapere Aude (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/SapereAude/article/view/24876
• topic: Necropolitic. Biopower. Sovereignty; State of exception.; Necropolítica. Biopoder. Soberania. Estado de exceção.

This article focuses on the notion of necropolitics, from the essay Necropolitics - Biopower, sovereignty, State of exception, politics of death, by Achille Mbembe. In it, the Cameroonian philosopher demonstrates the decisive influence of this idea in the reconfiguration of the relations between resistance, sacrifice and terror. Necropolitics  is the subjugation of life to the power of death. The political power today takes care not only of measures about how life should be managed, but also takes care of managing how to die and who should die.  Thus, the risk of death is present all the time. And this is the central mark of necropolitics.  Emphasized  in this study some of the topographies underlined by Achille Mbembe, such as the plantation and colony system, which are marked by extreme cruelty. In this context, of the appropriation of death by political power, the concept of biopolitics is unable to explain the current technologies of submitting life to the power of death. Finally, it appears that reflection on necropolitics poses the challenge of preventing the State from continuing to manage death.