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From The “Bio” To The “Necro”: The Human At The Border, Andrés Henao Castro
From The “Bio” To The “Necro”: The Human At The Border, Andrés Henao Castro
Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro
This chapter puts biopolitics in conversation with decolonial theory in order to investigate the disavowed colonial history of necropolitics at the center of modernity’s continuous racialization of “Man.” It further develops Achille Mbembe’s influential notion of necropolitics by tracing its origins to the colonial principle of power: ‘make die let die,’ and by understanding this new technology of power as the de-humanization device by which the human is divided across color lines. Such de-humanization, the chapter concludes, is prominent in the global production of unauthorized immigrants as disposable people through the necropolitical dispositif of the border. This technology of power …
Orfeo Y Eurídice: La Mirada De-Vuelta (Orpheus And Eurydice: The Re-Turning Gaze), Andrés Henao Castro
Orfeo Y Eurídice: La Mirada De-Vuelta (Orpheus And Eurydice: The Re-Turning Gaze), Andrés Henao Castro
Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro
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