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‘necropolitcs’ where ‘the generalized instrumentalization of human existence and the
material destruction of human bodies and populations’ is the central phenomenon of
power.50 Mbembe perceives this as the power of the continuum of death in the
contemporary society, which explains the ‘maximum destruction of persons and the
creation of death-worlds