A critical analysis of modern history highlights the sequence of crises and their permanence. This permanence reveals a paradox: the repetition of crises (health, ecological, financial, humanitarian, refugee, etc.) shows that the state of non-crisis does not really exist, and that "crisis" refers rather to a stable phenomenon of "government by crisis" (Hage, 205: 145), enabling the maintenance and reproduction of racial and patriarchal capitalism. We might therefore suggest that an analysis of the process of crisis makes visible the necropolitics of power (Mbembe, 2006), the control...