In order to think how can we live together, we must ask what separates us: reflections reganding the concept of necropolitics by Achille Mbembe

Abstract

Achille Mbembe´s issues that the politic of death is the continuity of yesterday´s racial war. Starting from this idea, we hold the relevance of reviewing the mbembian proposal for the analysis of exclusion contexts. Is in these scenarios that the question about who makes the decision of giving life or death arises; the answer seems to cross micro-power groups: gangs or maras, which emerge through the neoliberal effect. This article pretends to deploy some ofthe elements that allow a better comprehension of the mbembian thinking. Through Mbembe´s lecture, we propose a deepening of his theorical articulation of Necropolitics that understands politics as a work of death, and invites to see how politics of life in modern states and the Illustration project are in fact politics of death.