“… a new cultural sensibility emerges in which killing the enemy of the state is an extension of play. More intimate, lurid, and leisurely forms of cruelty begin to take shape.”
- Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics
From Achille Mbembe’s book Necropolitics:
#necropolitics #politicalphilosophy #politics #fascism #westernNations #whiteness
Placing bets on war, suffering and environmental destruction
Speculating on online prediction markets is rapidly becoming a feature of modern warfare.
Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts "New online accounts on Polymarket platform betting a total of $70,000 suggest ‘some degree of inside info." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/bets-us-iran-ceasefire-show-signs-of-insider-knowledge-say-experts-polymarket
Anonymous gamblers have made millions betting on the events of the Middle East war, prompting US politicians to call for a ban on such speculation. >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/iran-polymarket-anonymous-gamblers-made-millions-betting/106433384
#war #speculation #MilitaryConflicts #ConfidentialInformation #InsiderInformation #InsiderKnowledge #gambling #warfare #GamblingService #PredictionMarket #InsiderTrading #crime #regulation #necropolitics #Deathworlds
𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑼𝒕𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒂’𝒔 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔: 𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒌 & 𝑰𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒐 -
The “Hideous Bargain” moves from metaphor to the operating table.
https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/utopias-spare-parts-star-trek-ishiguro/
#podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #bookpodcast #literarylovers #bookboost #booklover #bookclub #necropolitics #bioeconomy #clinicallabor #organharvesting #startrek #startrekstrangenewworlds #liftuswheresufferingcannotreach #kazuoishiguro #neverletmego
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Das C steht für Necropolitics
#LoserABC #CDU #Necropolitics
Australians who need care because of age or disability shouldn’t be reduced to an algorithm >>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/aged-care-disability-australia-algorithms
When automated decision-making (algorithm) is in charge to ration care it could suggest forced euthanasia
Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4, The goal of the Nazi Euthanasia Program was to kill people with mental and physical disabilities. >>
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program
#SocialServices #care #governance #algorithm #efficiency #SystemicNeglect #abandonment #GlobalTrends #biopolitics #violence #HumanOversight #euthanasia #AktionT4 #necropolitics
Border Patrol has shot another person, critically wounding them, this time just outside Tucson, Arizona. Not a lot of details yet.
https://tucson.com/news/local/border/article_50cb181d-b064-47fa-9a4a-22b917969e96.html
#CBP #FuckCBP #ICE #FuckICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #BorderPatrol #Tucson, #Arizona #PoliticalViolence #necropolitics
The medical examiner in El Paso, Texas, has ruled that Geraldo Lunas Campos's death was, in fact, a homicide. Lunas Campos died Jan. 3 at the Camp East Montana site at Fort Bliss in El Paso. He's the one who ICE claimed was trying to commit suicide, so the staff at the facility restrained and ultimately killed him to stop him from killing himself. So even if he did want to commit suicide, that would only mean that he died anyway, but with more pain, less agency, and less dignity.
I'm curious what the consequences will be for the medical examiner, but regardless, I do know that there's no way this administration is going to take action to stop people from dying at disproportionate rates at Camp East Montana unless they're somehow forced to. Maybe the courts can do that, but it's just as likely that they can't or, if they can, that it won't be until after the camp has claimed even more lives.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/21/texas-el-paso-immigrant-death-ice-custody-homicide/
#ICE #FuckICE #ElPaso #FortBliss #CampEastMontana #DeathInCustody #necropolitics #GeraldoLunasCampos #ReneeGood
A coalition of organizations in the Southwest is demanding the closure of Camp East Montana following three different deaths in custody there in recent months.
From the article:
Diaz died on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at Camp East Montana. He was pronounced deceased at 4:09 p.m., and his death was a presumed suicide, according to ICE. However, the official cause of his death remains under investigation.
The announcement of Diaz’s death comes just days after The Washington Post reported last week that 55-year-old Geraldo Lunas Campos’ death — the second detainee who died at the detention center — could be ruled as a homicide.
The coalition said that Lunas Campos “died from asphyxiation after guards choked him to death, and that federal authorities subsequently are threatening to deport key witnesses to the incident, raising grave concerns about accountability and efforts to suppress evidence of abuse at the facility.”
Additionally, Francisco Gaspar Cristobal Andres was the first detainee held at the Fort Bliss immigration facility to die. The 48-year-old man from Guatemala was taken to the hospital on Nov. 16 and died on Dec. 3 of “suspected natural causes.”
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