Necropolitics: From Corpse to Body (original) (raw)

Necropolitics, 2019

Abstract

There is a regulatory force to violence that exceeds administration. The disfigured, dismembered or dissolved corpse introduces a destruction of life that is beyond a biopower of in/capacitation, beyond any sovereign classification of zoe or bios. The corpse ruptures the possibility of government and introduces the macabre order of organized crime. This order operates through visual techniques that display the corpse within a ‘barbaric semiotics’, while its representational techniques clarify who dies and why. Yet, this corpsed worldview disrupts any epistemic surety. The felt sensation of seeing death or the low-level fear propagated through representing violence differentially marks the bodies of the living. The corpse thus informs life beyond any external regimentation, working on and through the individual. Inadvertently, then, organized crime introduces a necropolitics of life’s inherence to violent death.

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