Necropolitics: Governing by the Campfire (original) (raw)

2019

Abstract

Does living amid violent death offer the opportunity for autonomous government? Explored in the community of Cheran, this final chapter contrasts thanatopolitics with an experiment in living death. The violence lived in Cheran is an invitation for organization, a possibility for self-sufficiency in the face of organized crime and a complicit state. Yet, for the majority of those living death in Michoacan, organization remains beyond reach. To appreciate this setting think necropolitically: of death worlds in excess of organization and instead as multiplicities and of living death in excess of regimentation and instead as transversal. Necropolitics is the study of living death’s inherence to the death world, a politics of life and death that is truly immanent.

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