*Achille Mbembe laser eyes.jpg*
I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially
April 29, 2026 at 12:01 PM
*Achille Mbembe laser eyes.jpg*
As Mbembe says, the whole thing is built on a fantasy
September 18, 2026 at 7:49 PM
As Mbembe says, the whole thing is built on a fantasy
Mokélé mbembé 🦖
September 23, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Mokélé mbembé 🦖
Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
The US president’s cuts to health funding could lead to half a million deaths. They’re part of a strategy to condemn and isolate the country
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Trump’s attacks on South Africa are a punishment for independence | Achille Mbembe and Ruth Wilson Gilmore
mokele-mbembe totally could be real
September 22, 2026 at 2:16 AM
mokele-mbembe totally could be real
March 27, 2026 at 1:04 AM
This is exactly what Achille Mbembe meant when he defined Necropolitics.
February 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is exactly what Achille Mbembe meant when he defined Necropolitics.
De toonaangevende filosoof Achille Mbembe (68) pleit voor meer aandacht voor het ‘Afrikaanse archief’. Hij ontving deze week de Spinozalens, onder meer omdat hij Europeanen een confronterende spiegel voorhoudt. ‘Het idee dat mensen verheven zijn boven andere wezens, is ons met geweld opgedrongen.’
Filosoof Achille Mbembe: ‘Westers denken leidt ons richting een catastrofe’
De Kameroense denker won deze week de Spinozalens.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
De toonaangevende filosoof Achille Mbembe (68) pleit voor meer aandacht voor het ‘Afrikaanse archief’. Hij ontving deze week de Spinozalens, onder meer omdat hij Europeanen een confronterende spiegel voorhoudt. ‘Het idee dat mensen verheven zijn boven andere wezens, is ons met geweld opgedrongen.’
Wow, Mbembe makes it into Teen Vogue!
What are necropolitics, you might ask? @teenvogue.bsky.social has you covered www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...
This Term Explains Why Governments Allow Some People to Die
“Necropolitics” explains so much about our world.
www.teenvogue.com
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Wow, Mbembe makes it into Teen Vogue!
Sozialdarwinistischer Neoliberalismus: Alles ist Ware, auch Gesundheit. „Nützliche“ werden gemäß ihrer (vererbten) Nützlichkeit (=Geld, Status) gefördert. "Nutzlose" werden als Belastung sterbend aus dem "Markt" gespült. (s. globaler Süden).
Vgl. Biopolitik (Foucault), Nekropolitik (Achille Mbembe)
Vgl. Biopolitik (Foucault), Nekropolitik (Achille Mbembe)
Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass innerhalb weniger Jahre, wenn nicht ein Wunder geschieht, arme Menschen nicht mehr die vollständige Gesundheitsversorgung erhalten werden.
Unter dem Deckmantel notwendiger Sparmaßnahmen wird die Lebenserwartung der ärmeren Bevölkerung radikal reduziert werden.
Unter dem Deckmantel notwendiger Sparmaßnahmen wird die Lebenserwartung der ärmeren Bevölkerung radikal reduziert werden.
April 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Sozialdarwinistischer Neoliberalismus: Alles ist Ware, auch Gesundheit. „Nützliche“ werden gemäß ihrer (vererbten) Nützlichkeit (=Geld, Status) gefördert. "Nutzlose" werden als Belastung sterbend aus dem "Markt" gespült. (s. globaler Süden).
Vgl. Biopolitik (Foucault), Nekropolitik (Achille Mbembe)
Vgl. Biopolitik (Foucault), Nekropolitik (Achille Mbembe)
‘Mbembe has been accused of writing at a “frustrating level of abstraction” and performing “language acrobatics”. But those who stay the course are rewarded.’
Kevin Okoth on the postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on the postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony
Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
‘Mbembe has been accused of writing at a “frustrating level of abstraction” and performing “language acrobatics”. But those who stay the course are rewarded.’
Kevin Okoth on the postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on the postcolonial theorist Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Achille Mbembe
Achille Mbembe ble født i Kamerun i 1957 og oppnådde sin doktorgrad i 1989 ved Université Paris 1 (Pantheon Sorbonne), med en avhandling om antikolonial motstand i Kamerun. Mbembe er professor i histo...
holbergprize.org
March 14, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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See also:
Organised abandonment, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe
Organised abandonment, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe
The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu)
December 5, 2024 at 11:21 PM
See also:
Organised abandonment, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe
Organised abandonment, Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe
📷 Trabalho em que Mbembe conceitua necropolítica.
September 17, 2024 at 2:10 PM
📷 Trabalho em que Mbembe conceitua necropolítica.
I've been thinking of how Achilles Mbembe says colonialism wears “the tawdry cloak of humanism" underneath which it hides its barbarism. In this respect, Trump, et. al. are nudists.
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
I've been thinking of how Achilles Mbembe says colonialism wears “the tawdry cloak of humanism" underneath which it hides its barbarism. In this respect, Trump, et. al. are nudists.
‘Normative accounts of democracy claim that the arbitrary use of force stands in opposition to democratic rights. For Mbembe, however, necropolitics isn’t democracy’s opposite but its dark underbelly.’
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth · The Pessimist’s Optimist: Beyond the Postcolony
Achille Mbembe is the pessimist’s optimist: he delivers a devastating analysis of the contemporary moment while never...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 12, 2025 at 7:35 AM
‘Normative accounts of democracy claim that the arbitrary use of force stands in opposition to democratic rights. For Mbembe, however, necropolitics isn’t democracy’s opposite but its dark underbelly.’
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Kevin Okoth on Achille Mbembe:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Monsterverse Mokele-Mbembe.
Took the description from the KOTM and went in a more mammalian direction
Took the description from the KOTM and went in a more mammalian direction
October 22, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Monsterverse Mokele-Mbembe.
Took the description from the KOTM and went in a more mammalian direction
Took the description from the KOTM and went in a more mammalian direction
Ich rede mir den Mund fusslig, aber nochmal: das war immer das Ziel, seit lange vor der Skandalisierung von Mbembe
Es kommt, wie zu erwarten war. Weimer will Kolonialismus aus dem offiziellen Gedenken in Deutschland wieder verbannen. Claudia Roth hat ihm leider vorgearbeitet. Der Hinweis auf die Singularität würde bedeute, dass er auch Gedenken an DDR-Unrecht streicht
www.deutschlandfunk.de/dlf-intervie...
www.deutschlandfunk.de/dlf-intervie...
July 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ich rede mir den Mund fusslig, aber nochmal: das war immer das Ziel, seit lange vor der Skandalisierung von Mbembe
Mokele mbembe my beloved.
(I love dinosaurs.)
(I love dinosaurs.)
April 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Mokele mbembe my beloved.
(I love dinosaurs.)
(I love dinosaurs.)
A função do racismo é regular a distribuição da morte.
- Achille Mbembe
- Achille Mbembe
December 4, 2024 at 10:10 PM
A função do racismo é regular a distribuição da morte.
- Achille Mbembe
- Achille Mbembe
Mokele Mbembe and Yamata No Orochi
March 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Mokele Mbembe and Yamata No Orochi