The Becoming-black of Neoliberalism. The Extraction Corps and the black Alethurgy in the Age of Neoliberal biopolitical Planetarization
by Orazio Irrera
pp. 138-158 Issue 14 ( 7,2) – July-December 2020 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2020.7.2.7
Abstract
One of the most remarkable aspects of the project announced by a work such as Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason is the attempt to outline a broad and coherent conceptual and historical framework that leads to the inescapable articulation of a global genealogy of the link between the racial subjection (the fabrication of a racial subject that Mbembe calls “the Negro”) and the diagnosis of the growing globalization of neoliberalism that guide the superposition of spaces and times of our global present. Hence the idea that the becoming-world of neoliberalism today cannot be dissociated from what Mbembe calls the “tendency universalization of the black condition” and therefore invokes a genealogy around what we could call the becoming-black of neoliberalism. This contribution will take up Mbembe’s reflections, placing himself in a critical way regarding certain problems that seem to remain open or capable of being elaborated in greater depth.