Achille Mbembe and Technology

Guest Patrick Jagoda will give a 5 minute intro about necropolitics and death in video games, and Jill Walker Rettberg will give a 5 minute intro about Mbembe’s view of technology in The Earthly Community and Brutalism. The rest of the hour will be devoted to open discussion, and we hope everyone will contribute.

If others would like to give short prepared intros to specific issues please let Jill know.

Recommended readings:

• The essay on necropolitics - chapter three of Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2020. 27 pages.
  • UiB library gives digital access: https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/961ef4/TN_cdi_chadwyckhealey_abell_R03416676
• The Earthly Community. At least the foreword and chapter 1.
  • I have ordered four copies from Akademika that I can lend/give people but they won’t arrive until around April 15.
• Selections from Brutalism: Suggestions welcome.
  • UiB library gives digital access: https://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/8hnp7t/BIBSYS_ILS71691944440002201

We expect participants to have at least read the Necropolitics essay and some of either The Earthly Community or Brutalism.