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MENTAL MODEL · M2887

Necropolitics

Necropolitics
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

The ultimate embodiment of sovereign power is not to make you live (biopolitics), but to decide who may die and who must die (e.g., refugee camps, slums, populations abandoned by healthcare). These people are biologically alive but socially already the "living dead."

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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- Marginal attention: In corporate layoffs or social unrest, pay attention to those groups implicitly allowed to be "sacrificed" by the system. Their fate reveals the cruel underpinnings of power.

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Power operates by deciding "who may die/who may be abandoned"; the abandoned become the "living dead" in a social sense, reflecting the negative side of sovereignty.

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