This class will reflect on the question of how we can practice a critical method that keeps faith with the demand for liberation in this form. It would lie instead in the insistent and concrete demand of non-sovereign communities for liberation from the particular necropolitical conditions in which they live. If so, the antithesis of coloniality would not be any past or future society that intellectuals or revolutionaries could reconstruct or imagine. And if we were to consider even longer times frames, we might find that practically every socio-political form-not just secular states but also, for example, the sacred communities that preceded them-creates both sovereign and non-sovereign people, those whom it protects and those whom it does not. Yet, long after the supposed end of colonial rule, this logic has only become more world-encompassing, systemic, and intractable than ever. We might consider this dynamic-the creation of sovereign populations whose economic and political security appears to depend on the inverse creation of non-sovereign peoples-a paradigmatically colonial logic. They are exposed, differentially, to unnatural death in its various forms: not just to the sovereign power to take life but also to the sovereign prerogative to let die, to slow violence, to social death, et cetera. These peoples live in circumstances of ‘organized state abandonment,’ in Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s incisive phrase. Over and over again, both inside and outside the borders of the state system, this process has also created, which much less fanfare, generally racialized peoples whom it attempts to deny political agency and to treat as effectively non-sovereign. In-person.įrom its late fifteenth-century origins forward, the process of modern state formation has created, with much fanfare, populations who claim to be sovereign and free by virtue of their national belonging. History and Theory of Comics and Graphic Narratives Life Writing, 1600-1800: Personal and Political Histories

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