Book contents
- Discounting Life
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Discounting Life
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Necropolitical Law
- Chapter Two Necropolitical Law’s Planetary Jurisdiction
- Chapter Three Necropolitical Law Remakes Justice
- Chapter Four The Killing of al-Baghdadi
- Chapter Five Necropolitical Law, Necropolitical Culture
- Chapter Six The Mother of All Bombs
- Chapter Seven Necropolitical Law and Endless War
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Chapter Six - The Mother of All Bombs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 October 2022
- Discounting Life
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Discounting Life
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One Necropolitical Law
- Chapter Two Necropolitical Law’s Planetary Jurisdiction
- Chapter Three Necropolitical Law Remakes Justice
- Chapter Four The Killing of al-Baghdadi
- Chapter Five Necropolitical Law, Necropolitical Culture
- Chapter Six The Mother of All Bombs
- Chapter Seven Necropolitical Law and Endless War
- References
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
Chapter 6 analyzes the April 2017 deployment in Afghanistan of the US military’s most powerful nonnuclear weapon, the Massive Air Ordinance Blast (MOAB). The bombing, the secrecy surrounding it, and the shock-and-awe media celebrations in the aftermath are all part of the cultivation of global audiences as spectator-consumers fascinated with the annihilatory killing technologies unleased by contemporary US militarized imperialism, which fuel necropolitical law’s discounting of life. Necropolitically, the MOAB strike illustrates “innovations in the technology of murder … [that] aim at disposing of a large number of victims in a relatively short span of time” (Mbembe 2003: 19).
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- Discounting LifeNecropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror, pp. 216 - 267Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022