#border regimes

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Who may live and who must die

Of today’s Book of the Day, I have chosen the following sentence to have a deeper analysis of Mbembe‘s thought: In our contemporary world, the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides precisely in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die.Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2019), p. 66 The terse clarity of Mbembe’s formulation…

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Mobile Threats and Biometrics | A Sketchy Analysis

Mobile Threats and Biometrics | A Sketchy Analysis

“On one hand, the slave is the foundation of the national order, and, on the other, the slave occupies the position of the unthought.”

— Saidiya Hartman, The Position of the Unthought

“There is no liberalism without a culture of danger.”

— Michel Foucault

To be honest, I haven’t been closely following the stories about ‘Jihadist travel movements’. Instead, I have been following the—you could…

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