Colonial and apartheid terror fuses biopower with the state of exception and siege.

Evidence

If the relations between life and death, the politics of cruelty, and the symbolics of profanity are blurred in the plantation system, it is notably in the colony and under the apartheid regime that there comes into being a peculiar terror formation I will now turn to. The most original feature of this terror formation is its concatenation of biopower, the state of exception, and the state of siege. Crucial to this concatenation is, once again, race. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 68

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the colony’s distinctive terror formation as the concatenation of biopower, the state of exception, and the state of siege, with race as the hinge.
• XREF: Connects to Agamben’s state of exception and Foucault’s biopower from the reader’s critical-theory toolkit. — connects to: Biopower takes control of life through the twin poles of body and population; Tropical medicine reframed colonized Africans as biological threats justifying racial segregation; Racism is a technology that legitimizes state killing under biopower. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 39

Related

• Slavery’s plantation system was early biopolitical experimentation. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Racism is a technology that legitimizes state killing under biopower. #expands (0.85) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 39
• Tropical medicine reframed colonized Africans as biological threats justifying racial segregation #exemplifies (0.80)
• Biopower takes control of life through the twin poles of body and population #expands (0.75)