Sunday March 23, 2025, Radical Sunday School – Necropolitics: Who lives and dies in a state of exception? From 18:00 till 20:00.
The norm is televised genocide, illegal mining and occupation. This system of marking specific bodies as kill-able and national sovereignty as “the right to kill” is as old as capitalism and colonialism itself.
Defining a state’s freedoms in such terms normalizes mass slaughter in distant lands, but it also props up justifications for places like Guantanamo Bay and organizations like Frontex here in the belly of the beast.
Who among us have limited rights, and what laws justify the hierarchies between different kinds of political identities?
In a Europe where the “working classes” and “stateless” people are quickly sliding into the category historically reserved for “savages” in the Dutch “Golden Age”, such questions help us anticipate who among us will be dragged off without a warrant to preserve “democracy”.
This session will break down musty academic concepts like necropolitics and the state of exception to explain how war in the 21st century has changed to keep pace with capital’s ever-growing need for blood and materials.
No prior knowledge needed.
Radical Sunday School
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Huis Vrederiks was squatted on December 30, 2024. Since then, people have been living there and a social centre, Begane Grond, has been established. Come and eat with us to help raise funds for Huis Vrederiks. Your donations go to electricity and plumbing costs!
