@article{Makia_2022, title={The Extinctionist Man}, volume={19}, url={https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/397}, DOI={10.51151/identities.v19i1-2.397}, abstractNote={<p>This essay explores how critical necropolitical frameworks bring to light, not only exploited subjugation, but the quality of doom, destruction and collapse embedded in masculine expression. It elaborates on how the proto-patriarchal view of death, or more accurately the prospective view towards it, emerges from a skewed narrative fixture, in which ‘life’ is determined by what it isn’t, ‘death.’ Similar to the dissociative and occultive schisms in the patriarchal rationale of life forms, such as the opposition of ‘man’ to ‘woman’ or ‘human’ to ‘animal,’ the concept of death is realized into an abject non-place inhabited by subjectivities of “fucking” and “killing.” Puncturing this staging of ‘alive’ patriarchal function, the necropolitical presents the condition of death as a possible flourishing identity and an already-present frontier of human expression, where ‘life’ and ‘death’ aren’t separate entities to one another but enmeshed, as if in masquerade of one another. The essay also provides critique and caution on how fiction and theory transpire into ‘staged’ realities, especially in the manifestation of the abject body. Its concluding remarks support the inclusion of “straightness” in fluid sexual discourse by highlighting how the appropriation and possession of traditional and existing social roles, rather than only those in defiance or at their fringe, has birthed the concepts of kineticism and fluidity in sexual expression.</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Author(s): Ahmad Makia</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title (English): The Extinctionist Man</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal Reference: </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 19, No. 1-2 (2022).</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Range: 92-106</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Count: 14</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citation (English): Ahmad Makia, "The Extinctionist Man,”</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 19, No. 1-2 (2022): 92-106.</span></p> <p><strong>Author Biography</strong></p> <p><strong>Ahmad Makia, Independent Researcher</strong></p> <p>Ahmad Makia is a writer and publisher from the United Arab Emirates. He currently operates under the publishing alias HOUSE and heads the publications department of the Sharjah Art Foundation</p>}, number={1-2}, journal={Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture}, author={Makia, Ahmad}, year={2022}, month={Dec.}, pages={92-106} }