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TalkDeath Book Club | Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics
Join us to discuss Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics with each other via Zoom on Saturday, December 13th at 2pm ET/ 1pm CT/ 12pm MT/ 11am PT
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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This event is free but you must RSVP to receive the Zoom link. The Zoom link will be sent to guests 48 and 24 hours in advance, kindly check your spam folder if you do not receive it.
Guests are welcome to attend on or off camera, to be on or off mute, and to share as much or as little as they prefer.
We’ll be meeting to discuss the book with each other on Saturday, December 13th. We’ll meet virtually via Zoom.
We’ll be meeting to discuss the book with each other on Saturday, December 13th. We’ll meet virtually via Zoom.
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Guests are welcome to attend on or off camera, to be on or off mute, and to share as much or as little as they prefer.
We’ll be meeting to discuss the book with each other on Saturday, December 13th. We’ll meet virtually via Zoom.
We’ll be meeting to discuss the book with each other on Saturday, December 13th. We’ll meet virtually via Zoom.
Whether you are a death care worker, scholar, or every day person trying to contemplate death, dying, and structures of power, you are welcome.
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Whether you are a death care worker, scholar, or every day person trying to contemplate death, dying, and structures of power, you are welcome.
Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe explores new conceptions that would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.”
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Despite his dire diagnosis, Mbembe explores new conceptions that would allow us to encounter the Other not as a thing to exclude but as a person with whom to build a more just world.”
“In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side—what he calls its ‘nocturnal body’—which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism...
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe outlines how democracy has begun to embrace its dark side—what he calls its ‘nocturnal body’—which is based on the desires, fears, affects, relations, and violence that drove colonialism...
Where did this holiday come from and how could a night of celebration, so different from all others, become one of the most widely celebrated holidays around the world?
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Well, look no further, because we have the history of Halloween! talkdeath.com/interesting-...
Interesting Facts and History of Halloween
Halloween occupies a strange place in the realm of holidays. While some people spend weeks planning and creating their elaborate costumes, others barely acknowledge it at all. Perhaps it is because…
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Where did this holiday come from and how could a night of celebration, so different from all others, become one of the most widely celebrated holidays around the world?
Well, look no further, because we have the history of Halloween! talkdeath.com/interesting-...
Well, look no further, because we have the history of Halloween! talkdeath.com/interesting-...
Read the full article "The Mascots of Halloween: Our Mortality as Decoration" by guest writer Charlotte Friend talkdeath.com/the-mascots-...
The Mascots of Halloween: Our Mortality as Decoration
Each year as the end of October draws near, we are haunted by images of our inevitable demise. The rattling bones of a skeleton, decontextualized from our own anatomy, and spooky white-sheet ghosts…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Read the full article "The Mascots of Halloween: Our Mortality as Decoration" by guest writer Charlotte Friend talkdeath.com/the-mascots-...
"The mascots of modern Halloween provide a safe distance from the present moment and the reality of our mortality; what one interprets within that space is up to the viewer and influenced by the cultures within which they exist."
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"The mascots of modern Halloween provide a safe distance from the present moment and the reality of our mortality; what one interprets within that space is up to the viewer and influenced by the cultures within which they exist."
"Halloween, at its roots, has always been a holiday centered around death..I suggest that when we see Halloween decorations, we are looking at our own mortality even if that’s not what we initially perceive."
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Halloween, at its roots, has always been a holiday centered around death..I suggest that when we see Halloween decorations, we are looking at our own mortality even if that’s not what we initially perceive."
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