Slavery’s plantation system was early biopolitical experimentation.
Evidence
Any historical account of the rise of modern terror needs to address slavery, which could be considered one of the first instances of biopolitical experimentation. In many respects, the very structure of the plantation system and its aftermath manifests the emblematic and paradoxical figure of the state of exception. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 59
Categorization
- XREF: Connects directly to Agamben’s ‘state of exception’ and Foucault’s biopolitics, both core vocabulary in this Foundations module. — connects to: Ancient slavery did not necessarily deploy racial categories; plantation slavery did.; The plantation was the first laboratory of cultural métissage — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 420
- DEFINE: Defines the plantation as a biopolitical space and the state of exception, key scaffold concepts.
Related
- The plantation was the first laboratory of cultural métissage (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial and apartheid terror fuses biopower with the state of exception and siege. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Ancient slavery did not necessarily deploy racial categories; plantation slavery did.
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