A ontologia do descarte

subjetividades de mulheres negras e o governo dos indesejáveis

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This article proposes a critical analysis of the dynamics of dehumanization affecting racialized bodies, with a particular focus on the experience of Black women in Brazil. Adopting a philosophical, political, and intersectional perspective, the work investigates how Western modernity, by constructing the ideal of the "universal human," simultaneously engenders the "non-human," condemning certain existences to the margins of dignity and ethical recognition. The investigation is grounded in the notion of "disposable existence" and seeks to unravel the architecture of undesirability that renders the grief and suffering of these individuals invisible. The theoretical approach mobilizes central concepts such as "bare life" (Agamben, 2007), biopower (Foucault, 1999), and necropolitics (Mbembe, 2018a; 2019), contrasting them with the categories of "Racial Contract" (Mills, 2023) and "social death" (Patterson, 2008). It argues that necropolitics, in the Brazilian context, materializes in the lives of Black women through an intersection of racism, sexism, and classism. The article explores how Black women's subjectivity is constituted through subordination, relegated to limiting archetypes such as the "mulatto" and the "domestic" (Gonzalez, 2020), and examines the denial of their right to subjectivity and mourning (Butler, 2015a). Recent empirical data, such as the increase in lethal and obstetric violence against Black women, corroborate the thesis of the "disposable machine" in operation. The work concludes by reinforcing the urgency of new ethics of recognition that position Black and female bodies as legitimate centers of humanity, highlighting the resistance of Black feminism as a line of escape.

Keywords: Necropolitics, Black Women, Intersectionality, Disposable Existence, Structural Racism.