Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ in Hong Kong after Rancière and Mbembe

In his article, “Necropolitics and Visuality: Remembering ‘Speculative Fictions’ in Hong Kong after Rancière Mbembe,” Anthony Siu examines images from Defiance.Voices, a two-volume collection that gathers photography art illustrations about the Protests. He studies how paintings second volume register politics events, arguing visual can be viewed as new form of “speculative fictions,” material ontology historicizes modes sovereign violence postcolony. The introduction situates debate aesthetics Kong, conjoining Rancière’s thinking on “the people” Achille Mbembe’s philosophy “necropolitics.” first cluster looks at polemics visibility tear-gas consumption. questions disposable bodies endurance “cruel optimism” younger generation. third figures node deadly econometrics Sino-American network. Despite their individual differences, fictions” three clusters are all entangled with economics.