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Necropolitics and homonecronationalism

Necronationalism "built on necropolitics, focuses on the ways in which the erasure and death of the bad (queer) citizen-worker body carves out the ideological and physical space for the good (queer) citizen-worker body to emerge." p.174 Edelman 2014

Homonecronationalism highlights how "the technology of letting live and letting die functions to serve and promote homonationalist projects in the reproduction of viable queer citizens... from those otherwise considered included within LGBT rights paradigms." p.175
Edelman 2014

"necropolitics explores the exceptionality of death among bodies identified as disposable. Indeed, ‘the ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die’ (Mbembe 2003: 11)." p.177

Queer Necropolitics, edited by Jin Haritaworn, et al., Routledge, 2014.

Mbembe - necropolitcs as invisible killing
Is the algorithmic visibility of trans killing, the same as necropolitics?

States of exception - Edelman on Puar - history of the nation state - rules that are valid until a state of exception e.g. war

How does visibility function as a trap in the two case studies presented by Cardenas and Edelman?
"What does "trans visibility" mean? For trans visibility to be a reality, there would have to be an essential trans identity to make visible, but there is not." p.170 Cardenas 

 There is no such thing as a trans body - one trans person does not look like the other - trans visibility traps the the trans body in one hegemonic view of what trans is. 

"Often, trans experience begins with an affective claim to futurity that rejects the truth of the visible" p.170 Cardenas 

How does the effect of this visibility function in the digital world and the material one?

Normative society expects one kind of trans body
Norms within the community
Producers in the economy - to stabilise the economy 

Hashtag culture makes everything hypervisible - over-saturation and no escape 

Visibility of trans-women of colour is associated with crime/death because of the hashtag culture - they are then pushed out of communities because of this association 

Hayward - "I am trans" identiarian mode that is also neoliberal - not radically transgressive
Actually it complies into the system
Sexuality as the "fantastic space between objects" 265
Hayward uses transsexual because it helps her make bigger points 
Andrea Long-Cheu TSQ After Trans Studies 






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