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First published in 2001, Achille Mbembe's landmark book, On the Postcolony, continues to renew our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. This edition has been updated with a foreword by professor of African Literature, Isabel Hofmeyr, and a preface by the author. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. Through his provocation, the 'banality of power', Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power in Africa. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity — violence, wonder and laughter — to contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. On the Postcolony, like Frantz Fanon's Black Skins, White Masks, will remain a text of profound importance in the discourse of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles.; First published in 2001, Achille Mbembe's landmark book, On the Postcolony, continues to renew our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. This edition has been updated with a foreword by professor of African Literature, Isabel Hofmeyr, and a preface by the author. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory. Through his provocation, the 'banality of power', Mbembe reinterprets the meanings of death, utopia and the divine libido as part of the new theoretical perspectives he offers on the constitution of power in Africa. He works with the complex registers of bodily subjectivity — violence, wonder and laughter — to contest categories of oppression and resistance, autonomy and subjection, and state and civil society that marked the social theory of the late twentieth century. On the Postcolony, like Frantz Fanon's Black Skins, White Masks, will remain a text of profound importance in the discourse of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 PLANETARY ENTANGLEMENT -- 2 DISENCLOSURE -- 3 PROXIMITY WITHOUT RECIPROCITY -- 4 THE LONG FRENCH IMPERIAL WINTER -- 5 THE HOUSE WITHOUT KEYS -- 6 AFROPOLITANISM -- EPILOGUE: THE POLITICS OF THE FUTURE WORLD -- NOTES

Au cours de cet entretien mené par Yala Kisukidi, Achille Mbembe revient sur les thèmes clés de son ouvrage Brutalisme (2020) : la définition de l'idée d'« Afrique », la nécessité de sortir d'une « histoire de la prédation » et de réinvestir des utopies par le « ré-enchantement », la revalorisation d'une « politique du soin » tandis que la terre est endommagée, la création d'un espace africain de libre circulation sont évoquées tour à tour. Convoquant les écrivains Amos Tutuola et Sony Labou Tansi, Mbembe souligne le rôle de l'imaginaire, et singulièrement de la littérature, dans la fabrique des utopies de demain. L'art, entendu comme réserve de vie et de possibles, constitue une ressource pour penser les migrations contemporaines et imaginer d'autres modèles alternatifs au modèle actuel néolibéral. Face à la criminalisation des circulations, le pillage des ressources, la violence du « brutalisme » contemporain, Mbembe en appelle à une « politique du soin » capable d'inclure, depuis l'Afrique, la question du commun et du partage de la Terre.

AbstractAs the new century unfolds, humans are increasingly surrounded by multiple and expanding wave fronts of calculation. What remains of the human subject in an age when instrumental reason is carried out by and through information machines and technologies of calculation? Who will set the boundary that distinguishes between the calculable and the incalculable? In the double-edged conditions of our times, what will it take to turn instruments of calculation into instruments of liberation?

El mundo tal como lo conocíamos desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con los largos años de la descolonización, la Guerra Fría y la derrota del comunismo, ese mundo ha terminado.Ha comenzado otro largo y mortífero juego. El principal choque de la primera mitad del siglo XXI no será entre religiones o civilizaciones. Será entre la democracia liberal y el capitalismo neoliberal, entre el gobierno de las finanzas y el gobierno del pueblo, entre el humanismo y el nihilismo.

El mundo tal como lo conocíamos desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con los largos años de la descolonización, la Guerra Fría y la derrota del comunismo, ese mundo ha terminado.Ha comenzado otro largo y mortífero juego. El principal choque de la primera mitad del siglo XXI no será entre religiones o civilizaciones. Será entre la democracia liberal y el capitalismo neoliberal, entre el gobierno de las finanzas y el gobierno del pueblo, entre el humanismo y el nihilismo.

Toutes les sphères de l'existence ont été pénétrées par le capital et soumises à la quantification. Dans ce cadre, la frontière n'est plus que la violence qui sous-tend l'ordre de notre monde, une guerre contre la mobilité qui remplit l'Europe de morts et de camps d'étrangers. Osera-t-on imaginer l'abolition des frontières ?