As Necrópoles e o Concreto Armado: reflexões antropológicas e históricas sobre os apartheids em Brasília e Joanesburgo

This article compares the development of the cities of Brasília (Brazil) and Johannesburg (South Africa) by analysing two series of dualism: event/daily; life/non-life. From a historical methodology and in the light of anthropological theories, we indicate how the constitution of these two spaces of apartheid, these events and daily life, are related by the materialization of eugenicist utopias that reify people already racial-ized by colonization. People who continue to have a dubious function of object and abject. Thus, we point out cement as an actor of the techno-sphere in the Negrocene as suggested by Malcon Ferdinand and, in the calculation of its transformation into concrete, we see how indispensable people (lives) are read by capitalism/colonialism as commodities (non-life), extracted of the residues of colonial political arrangements. Finally, we conceptualize modern cities as necropolis without forgetting that the alternatives to colonialism, presented by black histories, may indicate different experiences of what body and space are.