Slaves and owners don't sit at the same table: Theoretical and political crossroads between Achille Mbembe and Sueli Carneiro.
Sueli Carneiro; Achille Mbembe; device of raciality; necropolitics; black thought.
This dissertation comparatively analyzes the theoretical contributions of Sueli Carneiro and Achille Mbembe. To this end, the research uses a biographical, political and intellectual reconstruction of the two philosophers and a critical approach to their main bibliographical productions. Firstly, the works of Sueli Carneiro and Achille Mbembe present a critique of the racism present in the Western philosophical canon, which emerges from their own life trajectories. Subsequently, continuing this argument, the mechanisms for constructing the notion of “I” in modern philosophy are outlined, as well as how they stem from the concrete violence historically exercised against non-white populations. At this point, the specificities of the concept of “necropolitics”, developed by Mbembe, are explored. Finally, in the last section, convergences and divergences between Achille Mbembe and Sueli Carneiro on racism and black emancipation are presented. The conclusion is that both philosophers are, at the same historical moment and in different but similar realities, articulating and implementing important interventions in political philosophy, which channel perspectives, concepts and elaborations produced in the contexts of struggle of the African diaspora in the Atlantic.