Biopolitics, Necropolitics, and the Biosociosdeath: Moral "Anal" Torments and the Eroticized Thanatopolitics

In the Foucauldian paradigm of biopolitics, where power shifts from the sovereign’s right to take life to the regulatory mechanisms that foster, optimize, and manage life at the population level (Foucault 1978), the contemporary Ukrainian conflict unveils a hybridized regime wherein biopolitical imperatives intersect with necropolitical sovereignty, as theorized by Achille Mbembe, who posits necropolitics as the subjugation of life to the power of death, particularly in colonial and postcolonial contexts where certain populations are designated as disposable or killable without sacrifice (Mbembe 2003). This intersection engenders what might be termed “biosociosdeath,” a neologism synthesizing Orlando Patterson’s concept of social death — the natal alienation, dishonor, and powerlessness constitutive of slavery (Patterson 1982) — with the biopolitical administration of life and the necropolitical exposure to death, wherein the soldier’s body becomes a site of simultaneous vital optimization and social obliteration, rendered as a “slave-soldier” whose existence is suspended in a liminal state of managed vitality for the purpose of expendable mortality.