Grupo Legítima Defesa | Necropolitics Mix Poetic Intervention / Politics |Directed by Eugênio Lima

The poetic-political intervention NECROPOLITICS, is part of the project BLACK BRECHT-AND IF BRECHT WAS BLACK? Being part of the poetic reflection, therefore, politics of the image of negritude, its social and historical unfolding and its reflexes in the construction of the black person in the scope of the artistic languages. This transversal research action united artistic / intellectual / poetic / political activities and had as its central objective the creation of a performance-theatrical intervention based on a process of free poetic inspiration from the text of Achille Mbembe’s “Necropolitics”.

Excerpt from performance

The centrality of the state in calculating war derives from the fact that the state is the model of political unity, a principle of rational organization, the embodiment of the universal idea, and a symbol of morality.

In the same context, colonies are similar to borders. They are inhabited by “savages.” Colonies are not state-organized and have not created a human world. Their armies do not form a distinct entity, and their wars are not wars between regular armies. They do not imply the mobilization of sovereign subjects (citizens) who respect each other, even enemies. They do not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants or, again, between “enemy” and “criminal”.

Thus, it is impossible to establish peace with them. In sum, the colonies are zones in which war and disorder, internal and external figures of politics, stand side by side or alternate. As such, colonies are the place par excellence where controls and judicial guarantees can be suspended – the zone where the violence of the state of exception supposedly operates in the service of “civilization.”