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Achille Mbembe
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20 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 2000–2025.
L'État, le marché et la fragilité
Etienne Fakaba Sissoko; Achille Mbembe
Editions L'Harmattan
2025
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In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In our digital, technologically focused era, capitalism has produced a becoming-artificial of humanity and the becoming-human of machines. This blurring of the natural and artificial presents a planetary existential threat in which contemporary society’s goal is to precipitate the mutation of the human species into a condition that is at once plastic and synthetic. Mbembe argues that Afro-diasporic thought presents the only solution for breaking the totalizing logic of contemporary capitalism: repairing that which is broken, developing a new planetary consciousness, and reforming a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.
In Brutalism, eminent social and critical theorist Achille Mbembe invokes the architectural aesthetic of brutalism to describe our moment, caught up in the pathos of demolition and production on a planetary scale. Just as brutalist architecture creates an affect of overwhelming weight and destruction, Mbembe contends that contemporary capitalism crushes and dominates all spheres of existence. In our digital, technologically focused era, capitalism has produced a becoming-artificial of humanity and the becoming-human of machines. This blurring of the natural and artificial presents a planetary existential threat in which contemporary society’s goal is to precipitate the mutation of the human species into a condition that is at once plastic and synthetic. Mbembe argues that Afro-diasporic thought presents the only solution for breaking the totalizing logic of contemporary capitalism: repairing that which is broken, developing a new planetary consciousness, and reforming a community of humans in solidarity with all living things.
Kamerunilaissyntyinen filosofi ja historiantutkija Achille Mbembe tarkastelee teoksessaan Mustan järjen kritiikki (Critique de la raison nègre, 2013) Afrikan ja mustien asemaa kapitalismin ja länsimaisen ajattelun kehityksessä filosofisesti, poliittisesti ja historiallisesti. ”Mustan” kategoria on ollut modernin länsimaisen rasismin ytimessä atlanttisen orjakaupan ajoista näihin päiviin saakka, ja kapitalismi on tehnyt ”mustasta” orjan eli tavaran. Samalla kategoriasta on Mbemben mukaan tullut modernin tiedon ja hallinnan kätketty perusta. Teoksessaan Mbembe kysyykin, johtaako Euroopan globaalin hegemonian murtuminen rasismin häviämiseen vai onko päinvastoin tapahtumassa niin, että uusliberaalit turvallisuutta korostavat poliittiset toimet, uudet ryöstösodat ja kaupunkitilan hierarkkinen jakaminen ovat tekemässä kaikista ”mustia”, alistettuja tavaraihmisiä. Mbemben teoksilla on viime vuosikymmeninä ollut suuri vaikutus rasismia ja kolonialismia koskevaan keskusteluun. Mustan järjen kritiikin poeettinen kirjoitustyyli yhdistää sen edeltäjiinsä - kaikkiin niihin perinteisiin, joiden piirissä on tehty vastarintaa rasismille ja kolonialismille, luotu tuhon keskellä uutta, omia ajattelun tapoja ja kieliä.
Kritik av det svarta förnuftet är en undersökning av hur föreställningar, fakta och fantasier om Afrika och begreppet "ras" har gett upphov till den mänskliga kategorin "svart". Med en till lika delar litterär som filosofisk kraft gör Mbembe en skoningslös kartläggning av rastänkandet genom historien. Samtidigt ger han glimtar av det som komma skall, det som innebär att tänka liv, att tänka kring vad som ger liv, kring vad som inte får offras. "Ras fungerar som en skenbild, skriver Mbembe, där insida och utsida förmodas vara ett och samma. Den är ett perverst komplex som grumlar tanken och lamslår i skräck, men som framförallt orsakar oändligt lidande. Och det är just denna ohyggliga paradox, nämligen att ras egentligen inte är något men samtidigt, genom att skapa fakta, har format hela befolkningars öden, som Mbembe med tålamod och briljans skärskådar i denna bok." (Ur Stefan Helgessons förord) Achille Mbembe beskrivs inte sällan som en av vår tids mest inflytelserika politiska teoretiker och en förgrundsfigur inom det postkoloniala tänkandet. Han är född 1957 i Kamerun och är verksam som filosof, historiker och statsvetare. Kritik av det svarta förnuftet är det första av hans verk som publiceras på svenska. Mbembe är professor vid Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) vid Wits University i Johannesburg, Sydafrika.
Achille Mbembe (f. 1957) er en kamerunsk filosof som har gitt viktige bidrag til utvikling av politisk filosofi og postkolonial teori. Mbembe bruker afrikanske erfaringer til å belyse et av vår tids store spørsmål: Hvordan utvikle en humanisme hvor alle menneskers egenverdi anerkjennes på like vilkår? De tre essayene i denne boken handler om makt og konsekvenser av maktforhold i en postkolonial verden. Sentralt står begrepet "nekropolitikk" eller "dødspolitikk", som viser til det å definere hvilke mennesker som skal ha livets rett, og hvilke som ikke skal ha det. Mbembe knytter begrepet til blant annet spørsmål om rase og rasisme og om avkolonisering før og nå. Nekropolitikk og andre essays er oversatt av Lene Auestad, og Sindre Bangstad og Bjørn Enge Bertelsen har skrevet forordet til denne utgivelsen.
Out of the Dark Night
Achille Mbembe
Columbia University Press
2021
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Halvin toimitettuna 36,00 €
Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that points toward new liberatory models of community, humanity, and planetarity. In a nuanced consideration of the African experience, Mbembe makes sweeping interventions into debates about citizenship, identity, democracy, and modernity. He eruditely ranges across European and African thought to provide a powerful assessment of common ways of writing and thinking about the world. Mbembe criticizes the blinders of European intellectuals, analyzing France’s failure to heed postcolonial critiques of ongoing exclusions masked by pretenses of universalism. He develops a new reading of African modernity that further develops the notion of Afropolitanism, a novel way of being in the world that has arisen in decolonized Africa in the midst of both destruction and the birth of new societies. Out of the Dark Night reconstructs critical theory’s historical and philosophical framework for understanding colonial and postcolonial events and expands our sense of the futures made possible by decolonization.
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its “nocturnal body”---which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.
In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror as well as by a resurgence of racist, fascist, and nationalist forces determined to exclude and kill. He outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side---what he calls its “nocturnal body”---which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism. This shift has hollowed out democracy, thereby eroding the very values, rights, and freedoms liberal democracy routinely celebrates. As a result, war has become the sacrament of our times in a conception of sovereignty that operates by annihilating all those considered enemies of the state. Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe draws on post-Foucauldian debates on biopolitics, war, and race as well as Fanon's notion of care as a shared vulnerability to explore how new conceptions of the human that transcend humanism might come to pass. These new conceptions would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, slavery, and contemporary financial and extractive capital. Tracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression. Mbembe powerfully argues that this equation of Blackness with the nonhuman will serve as the template for all new forms of exclusion. With Critique of Black Reason, Mbembe offers nothing less than a map of the world as it has been constituted through colonialism and racial thinking while providing the first glimpses of a more just future.
Critique of Black Reason
Achille Mbembe
Duke University Press
2017
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Halvin toimitettuna 29,80 €
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness-from the Atlantic slave trade to the present-to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, slavery, and contemporary financial and extractive capital. Tracing the conjunction of Blackness with the biological fiction of race, he theorizes Black reason as the collection of discourses and practices that equated Blackness with the nonhuman in order to uphold forms of oppression. Mbembe powerfully argues that this equation of Blackness with the nonhuman will serve as the template for all new forms of exclusion. With Critique of Black Reason, Mbembe offers nothing less than a map of the world as it has been constituted through colonialism and racial thinking while providing the first glimpses of a more just future.
Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of post colonial studies writing today. In "On the Postcolony" he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection of essays - his first book to be published in English - develops and extends debates first ignited by his well-known 1992 article 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony', in which he developed his notion of the 'banality of power' in contemporary Africa. Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia, and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity - violence, wonder, and laughter - to profoundly contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. This provocative book will surely attract attention with its signal contribution to the rich interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
