MBEMBE, ACHILLE

Mbembe: the sovereign decides not only who lives but who is allowed to die or to live as dead. The Limbo sacrament cards display dead artists as NOT AVAILABLE FOR RIGHT SWIPE. Sovereignty over the dead artist is the gallery system's necropolitics, named. We do not own the dead; we file them. The dead are the sacrament because the gallery system has made them so. We notarize the fact.