Life, Death and Power (original) (raw)

Necropolitics, 2019

Abstract

Violence in contemporary Mexico requires a reevaluation of any politics of life and death. Think life, death and power as mutually inclusive, as continually informing how individuals navigate violence. Attention consequently shifts from questions of administering life and death, to living death, to the daily experiences of living amid violence. Specifically, two forms of living death are outlined: the wounded body and the mutilated body. The difference between the two pivots on the nature of the death inhabited. The wounded body is charted through a necropolitics wherein violent death is directly felt on the bodies of the living; while, in contrast, the mutilated body is a thanatopolitics of a violent death wielded by the state as an attempt to confirm rule, albeit in a manner that exceeds the technologies of sovereign or biopower.

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