BLACK ONTOLOGY AND THE DISCIPLINARY REGIME: BETWEEN ANNIHILATION AND RESISTANCE

Abstract

The persistence of racialization and disciplinary control of black bodies highlights the need to broaden critical analyses of power and subjectivity, especially in the context of coloniality of power and necropolitics. This study aims to investigate the intersections between power, racialization, and subjectivity based on the philosophical contributions of Michel Foucault (1995), Frantz Fanon (2008), and contemporary authors of critical racial theory and phenomenology. A qualitative approach based on bibliographic and documentary review is adopted. The results reveal that, although Foucaultian genealogy is fundamental to understanding disciplinary devices, it lacks a perspective that encompasses structural racial violence and the ontological annihilation of racialized bodies, emphasized by Fanon and decolonial thinkers (Mbembe, 2018; Mudimbe, 1988; Asante 2003; Thiong’o 2009; Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2013; Carneiro, 2005; Evaristo, 2017). The articulation with the phenomenology of the body allows us to understand the lived experiences of these violences and the resistances that emerge in this process. It is concluded that understanding racialized punishment requires an interdisciplinary framework that goes beyond the Eurocentric paradigm, contributing to theoretical advances on the relationship between power, body, and race, and political practices aimed at decolonization and social justice.