Statelessness and superfluity prepared living corpses for mass manufacture

Evidence

The insane mass manufacture of corpses is preceded by the historically and politically intelligible preparation of living corpses. The impetus and what is more important, the silent consent to such unprecedented conditions are the products of those events which in a period of political disintegration suddenly and unexpectedly made hundreds of thousands of human beings homeless, stateless, outlawed and unwanted, while millions of human beings were made economically superfluous and socially burdensome by unemployment. This in turn could only happen because the Rights of Man, which had never been philosophically established but merely formulated, which had never been politically secured but merely proclaimed, have, in their traditional form, lost all validity. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1003

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s stated purpose: ‘living corpses’ as the mechanism connecting statelessness to mass murder is a core building block the Islamophobia readings will assume. Connects to Arendt’s Rights of Man critique.
• ADDENDUM: The ‘silent consent’ mechanism and manufactured superfluity parallel the necropolitics strand of the sacrifice article’s sacrificial economy framing.