Lezing 'The Expansions of Spaces of Killing and the Logic of Evisceration against Gazans'

The talk will discuss overkill during the genocide in Gaza, not as excessive brutality but as a settler-colonial formation that organizes death as a totalizing condition of life. As a colonial technology, overkill operates through the systematic evisceration of the colonized sociopolitical body—its cohesion, interdependence, and capacity for regeneration. It subjects populations to continuous and routinized death, rendering human life, family, and community continuity not sacred but instrumental. Death itself becomes capital—extracted, weaponized, and circulated as both power and commodity.

In this regime, the destruction of life and infrastructure is not collateral but constitutive: overkill transforms vitality into a means of accumulation and demonstration, a currency of colonial power that is tested, displayed, and sold to produce further capital for the settler state and its global enablers.