Necropolitics Quotes

“Mainstream white feminism, which uses the corporate media and state/institutional discipline to redress individual injuries, cannot tackle the intersections of heteropatriarchy, racial capitalism and colonialism that produce sexual violence. At the thicker end of this wedge, reactionary feminism is complicit with the far-right politics also produced by this intersectionality of systems. The necropolitics of reactionary feminism is where the political whiteness of the mainstream ends up.”
― Alison Phipps, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism

“Даже если против тела или группы тел на краях неолиберальных режимов не принято прямого решения об уничтожении, они остаются под контролем суверенитета, допускающего экстремальное обнищание и растворение достоинства, фундаментальную онтологическую уязвимость, равную медленному умиранию. Кажется, что, читая это в России, довольно легко примерить слова к окружающей реальности: тела просто изнашиваются политикой.”
― Viktor Vilisov, Постлюбовь. Будущее человеческих интимностей

“Whether read from the perspective of slavery or that of colonial occupation, death and freedom are irrevocably interwoven. As we have seen, terror is a defining feature of both slave and late modern colonial regimes. Both regimes are also specific instances and experiences of unfreedom. To live under late modern occupation is to experience a permanent condition of "being in pain": fortified structures, military posts, and roadblocks everywhere, buildings that bring back painful memories of humiliation, interrogations, and beatings; curfews that imprison hundreds of thousands in their cramped homes every night from dusk to dawn; soldiers patrolling the unlit streets, frightened by their own shadows; children blinded by rubber bullets; parents shamed and beaten in front of their families; soldiers urinating on fences, shooting at rooftop water tanks just for kicks, chanting loud and offensive slogans, pounding on fragile tin doors to frighten children, confiscating papers, or dumping garbage in the middle of residential neighborhoods; border guards kicking over vegetable stands or closing borders at whim; bones broken; shootings and fatalities - a certain kind of madness.”
― Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics