Summary
Author of ‘Necropolitics’, Public Culture 15, 1 (2003), cited by David Lloyd — “see especially” — for the critique of Giorgio Agamben’s focus on Auschwitz: the long colonial history of genocide and domination in which the techniques and spaces of the Holocaust were first developed (Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, PDF p.16-17 / printed p.74-75).
Details
- Lloyd quotes Mbembe’s sentence: ‘the links between modernity and terror spring from multiple sources’, in support of the point that the colonial genealogy of the normalisation of the exception must not be overlooked (PDF p.17 / printed p.75).
- Note 38 cites ‘Necropolitics’, pp.11-40, at the sentence arguing that Agamben ignores the colonial history behind the Holocaust’s techniques and spaces (PDF p.16, 21).
Related pages
Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel, Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, Bare Life