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everything alone, I always try to leave the place, in this war, granted to life, death and that corresponds to a triple loss: that of his
initial idea as open as possible and involve the body. Finally, to what extent life, death “home”, that of his rights over his body and
people from outside the context of art in and the body are articulated with ways of that of his rights as a “citizen”.
this construction. The very meaning of art exercising power. Without speech and without thought,
is to construct it collectively, expanding Bringing together Foucault, Carl the slave is an object, a thing, a commodity,
the understanding of what art is and the Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, Mbembe which belongs to the master. However, to
very notion of art”. will operate a first shift in the Foucauldian this growing and overwhelming process
In closing, Kunsch stated that the conception of biopower, when thinking of dehumanization, the slave responds,
continuation of the proposal could imply about the indissolubility between biopower, resists, through a reappropriation of
a change in the German title: “Instead of sovereignty, state of siege and state of himself, especially through music and his
Eltern und Kleinkinder Krippe [parents and exception. This last aspect, as we know, own body. There, in the midst of these
babies day care], it will be called Öffentliche became a kind of guiding conception for the paradoxes founded on the dehumanized
Elterliche Krippe [Public Parental Daycare], understanding of Nazism, totalitarianism, figure of the human, a specific kind of terror
marking the transformation of the artistic concentration and extermination camps. emerges, which makes the path between
project into public policy that, like a seed In the eyes of several important the slave quarters and the planting itself an
— to use the lumbung vocabulary —, or like philosophers of our time, such as Adorno, experience that touches, all the time, that
the trees of Beuys, could spread and open Hannah Arendt, Agamben and Foucault of death. The colony is thus a place for the
up new landscapes. Both for life and for art,” himself, the concentration camp has permanent exercise of power outside the
she concluded. become a kind of “central metaphor” for law and where “peace” is nothing more
understanding the extent to which the than the sinister face of an “endless war”.
VII INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR DEMOCRACY AND combination of sovereign violence and It is up to us to ask to what extent
REPARATION [PAGES 24 And 25] destruction can reach, what would be a Mbembe’s analysis can help us understand
THE RIGHT TO KILL kind of “last sign of the absolute power of our own history, marked by slavery and
the negative”. racism. Without forgetting that slavery also
“Necropolitics”, by Achille Mbembe, sheds The extermination camps of the Second affected indigenous populations and that
light on the exercise of politics in our own World War would thus represent either slave labor is a practice that still exists in
history, marked by slavery and racism the horror that surpasses any imagination the country. It seems that a necessary step
By ErnAni CHAVES (Arendt) or even the place of the most to be taken beforehand is the recognition
absolute dehumanization that has ever that we still live, in several aspects, in a
Necropolitics, bY aChille mbembe, an occurred in our history (Agamben). From state of affairs marked by the experiences of
essay originally published in English in this perspective, the state of exception, as terror and death initiated in the biopolitical
2003, and to Portuguese in 2018, begins Agamben says, is no longer the provisional experimentation, which was colonization.
in a forceful way, recalling the terms in suspension of the Rule of Law, in the face of
which Michel Foucault defined biopower emergency situations, to become the very interview SECUlT-ES fABriCio noronHA
in the last classes of In Defense of Society, paradigm of government, thus constituting [PAGES 26 To 29]
a course given at the Collège de France, a kind of “uncertain zone”, of a “no man’s ESPÍRITO SANTO
between 1975 and 1976: “To be sovereign land”, inhabited, however, in the case of
is to exercise control over mortality and the colonization process, by the “desire of REINFORCES ITS
to define life as the implantation and an enemy”, by the “desire of apartheid”, by CULTURE
manifestation of power”. What Mbembe the “fantasy of extermination”, as Mbembe While the absence of national public
then asks from this first observation is would say, many years later, in Politiques policies causes destruction of the sector,
about the practical conditions that made de l’inimitié. states, as well as Ceará, expand equipment
and give new vitality to the area
this power to kill, to let live and to be exposed Mbembe’s uniqueness in this debate
to death possible. And, even more, if this is not that he ignores or underestimates By fABio CyPriAno
conception of biopower could still help in the extermination of the Jews. But, it is to
the understanding of contemporary forms produce another displacement in terms There is a growth in the cultural
of the exercise of politics, whose primary of the debate, that is, to show that the environment of certain Brazilian states,
objective would now be the murder of the conditions of the concentration camp such as Ceará and Espírito Santo, with the
enemy. were given by an event that precedes emergence of new public facilities such as
Let us remember, then, that Necropolitics the biopolitical device of the 19th century, the Estação das Artes Cultural Complex
was written, not by chance, in the shadow that is, colonization and, consequently, and the Image and Sound Museum, both
of the attacks on the twin towers, in New the experience of slavery: “Any historical in Ceará, and the Casa Cultural Parque
York, which took place two years earlier. The account of the emergence of modern do Governador, in Vila Velha, Espírito
semantics of the “war”, especially the “war terror must deal with slavery, which can be Santo, all opened in 2022.
on terror”, used to exhaustion to justify and considered one of the earliest manifestations In Vila Velha, the new park occupies
legitimize all possible means, regardless of biopolitical experimentation,” he writes, the governor’s former beach residence,
of the degree of violence and cruelty, to in Necropolitics. a modernist house in front of a private

defend, protect and preserve the values of The shape of the planting, by itself, beach. The view there is enviable and,
the Christian West, as well as that of liberal already shows how much the slavery with the sculpture park, the site is
democracies, gave Mbembe a chance to regime constitutes a permanent state of reminiscent of one of the art spaces in
reflect on politics as a form of war (taking exception. In it, the slave is dehumanized Europe celebrated for its insertion in
up Clausewitz’s well-known principle, that to such an extent that he only appears as nature, the Louisiana Museum of Modern
“politics is war by other means”), to ask what a “personified shadow”, a dehumanization Art in Denmark.
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