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  • Chapter Seven - Necropolitical Law and Endless War

  • Jothie Rajah
  • Book:
    Discounting Life
    Published online:
    27 October 2022
    Print publication:
    03 November 2022, pp 268-291

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 concludes this book with an analysis of two key speeches delivered by President Biden on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden’s speeches served, yet again, to co-constitute nation/empire, the familial and the political, deploying these co-constitutions to authorize and legitimize American imperial violence. In the process, Biden re-articulated to necropolitical law, relying on political myth to ground his narratives of authority, legitimacy, and community. With myth doing the work of law, imperial violence directed at distant, racialized Others reconstituted America as a community of power