ABSTRACT:
Transcript of Achille Mbembe’s conference, entitled Weighing Lives, given on November 5, 2020, at the XIX Journey of the Brazilian Space for Psychoanalytic Studies in Rio de Janeiro. In this essay, the Cameroonian thinker develops his theses presented in Policies of Enmity and Brutalism about the policies of the living that the present time requires, especially regarding the right to breathe and the belonging of the Earth to all living things, human and non-human. To what extent the psychoanalytic project, in its terms, contributes to the pluralization of knowledge and its refoundation through the resumption of the All-World archives is one of its questions for psychoanalysis. Finally, it is around the incalculable present in every living thing that Achille Mbembe defends the idea that the living thing is that which has no price and cannot be weighed.
Keywords:
policies of the living; pluralization of knowledge; right to breathe; sharing of the Earth.