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Death: Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. It is the end of the life cycle.
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Achille Mbembe on Death - Dictionary of Arguments

Brocker I 922
Death/Mbembe/Herb: Mbembe's analysis of the tyranny of representation (...) penetrates behind the "noise of the tam-tam" (Mbembe 2016(1), 266) into the sphere of extinction and forgetting. There he searches for the reasons why Africa is so twinned with violence and death that the violence of death has become the "normal state of things" (248).
In the entourage of Frantz Fanon, Mbembe once again inspected the "terrifying places" (261) of the colony.
>Language/Mbembe
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Brocker I 923
Postcolony: The postcolony appears as an "epoch of raw life" (282), as a place of indistinguishability of life and death. The colonial relationship between death, body and flesh, which Mbembe describes in such detail, remains intact in the postcolony. The new rulers also show their "carnivorous face"(287).
>Colonialism, >Postcolonialism.

1. Achille Mbembe, De la postcolonie. Essai sur l’imagination politique dans l’Afrique contemporaine, Paris 2000. Dt.: Achille Mbembe, Postkolonie. Zur politischen Vorstellungskraft im Afrika der Gegenwart, Wien/Berlin 2016

Karlfriedrich Herb, „Achille Mbembe, Postkolonie (2000)“. In: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Mbembe, Achille
Brocker I
Manfred Brocker
Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018


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