I've meet Achille and have took a class with him on political theology. (Caught up in the current Paul obsession.) I would recommend his essay Necropolitics if you are interested in his work, particularly how he thought about current political conditions, although his book On the Postcolony is interesting as well (although we have different opinions on Bakhtin and the grotesque and he is not particularly fond of Marx, although he is a reader of Bataille). I'm not sure what you're after in particular, though... robert wood
> This piece was recommended to me; perhaps Robert Wood knows more about
> the author, Irvine prof Achille Mebme who I once heard give a profound
> talk on the truth and reconciliation process in South Africa. I find the
> following an inspired and important critique.
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