The Extinctionist Man
The Extinctionist Man

Summary/Abstract: 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.

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