“Pois quem pode viver sem ter desgostos que vá vivendo”: suicídio e raça no contexto da necropolítica

Abstract

This dissertation aims to philosophically reflect on the relationship between race and voluntary death represented in its variants, of suicide and self sacrifice. To do so, among other approaches to the theme, decolonial philosophy has been chosen as a reference point for this dissertation. Two philosophers of the decolonial school have fueled reflections on the issue: the Martinican psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, who contributes through his critique of French colonialism, largely grounded in the Hegelian Master-Slave Dialects; and the historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe, who contributes with notions that permeate his work on necropolitics. Following the distinctions between the thoughts and approaches of the authors, this work sought to understand them through two different perspectives: that of race though the experience of the slave, in which we contemplate the relationship between the slave system, represented in the figure of the slave owner, and the slave as it was analyzed in the light of the Hegelian-dialectic interpreted by Fanon in Black Skin, White Masks; and that of race through necropolitics, in which it was perceived that suicide serves necropower as any other death, such as its seen in Achille Mbembe’s essay Necropolitics, and insofar as necropower aims to eliminate racialized populations.