The modern state form itself is inextricable from the commandement, not just as an emblem for sovereignty in Schmitt’s sense, but also because the exemplary political form of modernity, the nation-state, has racist and exclusionary tendencies that can be understood as political-theological transfers of monotheistic principles.
Black reason is propelled by a fantastic imaginary, a changeling animus that aggregates and transmogrifies the desires and fears of whiteness.
Achille Mbembe’s work excavates the legacies of colonial reason and violence shaping the powers of death in the world today.
Differentiating journalists as enemies is always alarming, but especially so during a public health crisis.
By JD Mechelke