Hostile Policies

Achille Mbembe, one of the contemporary writers of critical thought, in his Politics of Enmity, describes the everyday life that imprisons the entire planet.
He argues that a relationship of hostility that penetrates into relationships and holds people captive has become the rule and founding norm of our age. According to the author, following in the footsteps of Frantz Fanon, war has become the value sanctified by our age. Our societies are rapidly moving away from democracy as hostility and war become sacred values.

Moreover, the roots of democracy are also dark... These societies, which do not want to remember their own criminal past, live in fear of the evil objects they have invented and want to get rid of them through violence. Liberal democracies normalize the state of emergency, raise fences, and do not hesitate to implement dictatorial practices both within themselves and against their external enemies. The principles of human rights and equality are already ruined and exhausted. Nationalism is emerging again in its bloodiest form. The political order is reconstituting itself as a form of organization directed towards death. Nanoracism, which has penetrated into the cells of the social body, tries to gain legitimacy by blurring the relationships between violence and law, faith and obedience, norm and exception, and even freedom and security.

Looking at this pessimistic picture, Mbembe asks: Those who make every part of the world their home, who question their roots, but who also make all
A humanity that is rooted in the planet, is aware of its ephemerality, and can escape from the relationship of hostility by making the earth a common denominator.
Is it possible? Can a policy and a common genealogy be established that will go beyond humanism and include all living things?
Or have we already missed the train?

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 224

Size: 13.5 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish