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Achille Mbembe's "Necropolitics"

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Suicide Bombings Are a Demonstration of a New Globalized War Strategy

The new globalized wars are more reminiscent of the warfare strategy of the nomads, where here it is all about global mobility. For membe these kind of necro political strategies happen to also mirror the movements of late capitalism in its globalized potential. And very much in the same way, we see these battles wage out rage out between people in a kind of spontaneous fashion. But he then meditates on the role, or the position, of suicide bombings within this am this paradime,. as being a demonstration of a kind of body to body warfare.

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