Modern Sovereign
Modern Sovereign The "Modern Sovereign," a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest…
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Modern Sovereign
The "Modern Sovereign," a notion indebted both to Hobbes's Leviathan and Marx's conception of capital, refers to the power that governed the African multitudes from the earliest colonial days to the post-colonial era. Joseph Tonda contends that in Central Africa--and particularly in Gabon and the Congo--the body is at the heart of political, religious, sexual, economic, and ritual power. It is an internalized power, responsible for the multiform violence exerted on bodies and imaginations.
The body of power asserts itself as both matter and spirit, and it incorporates the seductive force of money, commodities, sex, and knowledge. This, he argues, is confirmed by the strong link between corporeal and political matters, and by the ostentatious display of bodies in African life. Tonda's incisive analysis reveals how this sovereign power is a social relation, historically constituted by the
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