Sionainn’s Reviews > Necropolitics > Status Update

I wish Mbembe would delve into the psychic state of the colonized woman who's been raped, and not focus on her as an extension of the affront against the colonized male's virility.....

I feel like Mbembe could use an editor to streamline a lot of his argument, but, besides that, solid af

The third chapter is the best by far. It feels like it's the most thought-out and the clearest.

Mbembe just wrote a seventeen-line sentence of the most technical philosophical language. I've spent the last 5 minutes just staring at it hopelessly 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Mbembe would benefit from slowing down and explaining some concepts and phrases at length. There's a handful of phrases and concept that he throws out there and then moves past too quickly. It makes reading rather difficult.

The idea that terror and counter-terror are two sides of the same coin is fascinating. Mbembe says they both encompass "a relation without desire," which I can't say I understand completely, but I do agree that, in the system we live in, "the law cannot be protected by the law - only nonlaw can protect it." (33)

Mbembe talks about America as a two-faced empire whose spectacle of cruelty combined with its directly oppositional rhetoric of free democracy leads to cognitive dissonance. As we watch ICE grab our neighbors off the streets as the White House releases gleeful videos of innocent people in chains, it's hard not to agree with this statement...