The mentality of dieability/killability: Reflections on the special issue on law, medicine, and bioethics.

Teo, Thomas

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“…These are the practices that create states of exception that enable accumulation by dispossession" (Banerjee, 2008(Banerjee, , p. 1559. The accumulation of capital, in other words, depends on conferring value onto some lives and not others, thereby signifying who is disposable and who is not; who may be killed or who should be left to die; and who is hated and for what reasons (see Mbembe, 2019;Teo, 2022). While capitalism does not have a monopoly on necropolitics (Feudalism undoubtedly relied on a politics of this sort, as did Stalinist communism), it is necrocapitalism that we face in our contemporary conjuncture.…”

Section: Necrocapitalism and Hatredmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Doing so can allow us to see how those struggling for a better world were, and indeed are, able to love with hate. Teo (2022) notes that under necrocapitalism, value is conferred unevenly onto life. The majority of lives are, he notes, made either killable (i.e., actively murdered), or dieable (i.e., left to die).…”

Section: Malherbementioning

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“…Similarly, contemporary U.S. imperialism tends to characterize itself as promoting democracy (Rancière, 2009). Although hatred is not part of democracy's official identity, when democracy is made an appendage of necrocapitalism, hate forms part of how democracy is actualized (Teo, 2022).…”

Section: Hating Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This means that there is some investment in reproducing the worker as a subject position (which is not to say that there is an investment in sustaining individual workers, as indicated by the increasing precariousness of work the world over; see Rubery et al, 2018). The managers and bureaucrats of capital can engage workers with neither love nor hate, but with indifference (treating workers instrumentally, as things or commodities; Fromm, 1955), with little concern over whether a worker lives or dies (see Teo, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Teo (2022) notes that under necrocapitalism, value is conferred unevenly onto life. The majority of lives are, he notes, made either killable (i.e., actively murdered), or dieable (i.e., left to die).…”

Section: Addressing Liberation Psychology To the Problems Of Hate And...mentioning

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Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Malherbe¹

2024

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Hatred, understood as a kind of negative attachment, circulates in different ways within a global capitalist economy premised on the degradation and expropriation of lives, labors, and lands. At the same time, psychoanalysis shows that hateful instincts are often repressed or worked through in an attempt to develop loving identifications and attachments. Thus, love functions together with hate in a conflictual dialectic. Although we cannot trust hatred, hate remains a part of human subjectivity. This somewhat curious position that hate occupies raises important questions for activists committed to building emancipatory political power. On the one hand, hateful annihilation cannot be relied on as a basis for progressive politics, yet on the other hand, piously refusing to engage with hatred in progressive politics is likely to result in the repression of hate, and thus the emboldening of a hateful unconscious. In this article, I interrogate the place of hate in social movements, drawing from the liberation psychology paradigm to do so. Specifically, I consider what hate might mean for psychological work concerned with recovering historiographical fragments, interrogating comradeship, and embracing radical democracy. It is because hate is so dangerous that we must take seriously its influence on emancipatory political programmes committed to opposing—and, indeed, hating—capitalism’s systematised hatred.

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Section: Necrocapitalism and Hatredmentioning

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Section: Hating Democracymentioning

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Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Malherbe¹

2024

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Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization

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2023

Theory & Psychology

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The unprecedented pace and scope of globalization over the past half century have had major impacts on the field of psychology. We observe that since the 2008 financial crisis, there have been increased academic and political concerns with “deglobalization,” which is often associated with terrorism, xenophobia, authoritarianism, Brexit, the US–China trade war, the Russian war on Ukraine, and the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the phenomenon of deglobalization is historically uncertain but intellectually and politically significant enough to warrant analysis. Thus, in this special issue, we begin to theorize the psychology of deglobalization by addressing several foundational issues: the major manifestations of deglobalization in relation to psychosocial life, the dialectical relations between globalization and deglobalization, and possible ways to respond to the challenges of deglobalization. In the meantime, we flesh out these theoretical perspectives using the cases of nationalism, neoliberalism, White supremacy, far-right politics, dehumanization, isolationism, and trade conflicts.

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Psychology and the question of radical democracy

Malherbe

2023

Theory & Psychology

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Throughout its history, capitalism has undertaken its extractive, imperial, and expropriative operations under the sign of democracy. Psychology has played a part in the ideological consolidation of capitalist democracy, adapting people to this system while also legitimising it. However, what of radical democracy as an always-contested grassroots organisational form that stands in opposition to both capitalism and the capitalist co-optation of democracy? Radical democracy of this sort remains a psychologically fraught function of anticapitalist resistance, one that has the potential to produce fracturing among comrades building such democracy. In this article, I consider how critical psychologists can work with those undertaking the difficult work of building radical democracy into political and quotidian life. I consider what critical psychology praxis could mean for those practicing radical democracy and how critical psychology might reconstitute itself through radically democratic formations.

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The mentality of dieability/killability: Reflections on the special issue on law, medicine, and bioethics.

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Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Problems of hate and emancipation: Some considerations for liberation psychology.

Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization

Psychology and the question of radical democracy

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