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Necropolitics (Theory in Forms)

by Achille Mbembe

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Jul 31, 2026 01:39AM

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The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

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Mar 04, 2026 06:03PM

“It was disorienting, albeit sobering, to realize that advocating for Palestine, like all things, is entrenched in and informed by capitalism, that there was a market for our suffering, something that, for many, may have already been self-evident.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

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“Palestine is a microcosm of the world: wretched, raging, fraught, and fragmented. On fire. Stubborn. Ineligible. Dignified. The lens we lend the Palestinian reveals how we see each other, how we see everything else.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

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“Why do we give the authority of narration to those who have murdered and displaced us when the scarcity of their guilt means honesty is unlikely? Why do we wait for those carrying the batons to confess when our bruised bodies tell the whole truth?”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

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