Necrovitality and Porous Exclusions: On Dying amidst Chemical Vitalities
Update: 2025-10-09
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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Misria Shaik Ali can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/necrovitality-and-porous-exclusions-on-dying-amidst-chemical-vitalities/. About the post: This piece introduces the concept of necro-vitality developed as a way of conversing about the intersection of materiality of chemicals and deathworlds. Responding to Gabrielle Hecht provocation and inspired by Achille Mbembe's necropolitics, the author discusses how death, deadly conditions and deadly materiality of pores excludes lower caste and class temporary workers, and residents at Tummalapalle Uranium Mine and Mill, Andhra Pradesh, India. Here people make life and living in deadly conditions of engineered porosity.
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