Sovereign power manufactures the emergencies and enemies it claims to respond to.

Evidence

In such instances, power (and not necessarily state power) continuously refers and appeals to exception, emergency, and a fictionalized notion of the enemy. It also labors to produce that same exception, emergency, and fictionalized enemy. In other words, the question is: What is the relationship between politics and death in those systems that can function only in a state of emergency? — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 34

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Schmitt’s concept of the state of exception and to Agamben’s later work on the state of exception as the norm; groundwork for the Islamophobia module’s treatment of manufactured enemy figures. — connects to: A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 111; Sovereign power makes the subject’s very life and death depend on its will — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 255; Sovereignty operates by designating quotidian acts as security matters. (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Defines necropolitical sovereign power as self-referential: it produces its own exceptional conditions and enemy constructs.

Broader Connections

• A government can manufacture crisis to construct its own people as enemy #corroborates (0.98) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 111
• Sovereignty operates by designating quotidian acts as security matters. #expands (0.85)
• Sovereign power makes the subject’s very life and death depend on its will #qualifies (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 255