Between racial madness and neoliberal reason: metonymic contagion in apartheid biopower

I will seek to consider the simultaneous workings of race and capital in apartheid biopower. J.M. Coetzee offers a reading racism as racial madness which is imbricated with economic reason. In wake COVID-19 pandemic, we have witnessed instances biopolitical making live letting die. The Strandfontein homeless camp set up just outside Cape Town 2020 an instantiation particular normative order, wherein contagion was used justify movement black, people city’s cordon sanitaire. This resonant segregation fear mixing sometimes described terms where whiteness represents that pure while blackness dirty infectious. Despite this desire for separation, biopower depends on exploitable black labour sustain white domination. figurative work then undercut when worker be present available areas work. Neoliberal modes power inherit dual poor are let