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Returning to this book, which explains so much right now. I mean, haven't we created "forms of social existence in which vast populations are subjected to conditions of life conferring upon them the status of living dead?" (40)
For Mbembe, necropolitics is when the ruling classes have “the capacity to define who matters and who does not, who is disposable and who is not."

Explains those "we're gonna open back up for business" governors' orders.
(that's from p.27 btw) #CiteYourSources
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