Under the auspices of neoliberalism, technical systems of compliance and efficiency have come to underwrite the relations among the state, the economy, and a biopolitics of war, terror, and surveillance. In Beyond Biopolitics, prominent theorists seek to account for and critically engage the tendencies that have informed neoliberal governance in the past and are expressed in its reformulation today. As studies of military occupation, the policing of migration, blood trades, financial markets, the war on terror, media ecologies, and consumer branding, the essays explore the governance of life and death in a near-future, a present emptied of future potentialities. The contributors delve into political and theoretical matters central to projects of neoliberal governance, including states of exception that are not exceptional but foundational; risk analysis applied to the adjudication of "ethical" forms of war, terror, and occupation; racism and the management of the life capacities of populations; the production and circulation of death as political and economic currency; and the potential for critical and aesthetic response. Together, the essays offer ways to conceptualize biopolitics as the ground for today's reformulation of governance.Contributors. Ann Anagnost, Una Chung, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Steve Goodman, Sora Y. Han, Stefano Harney, May Joseph, Randy Martin, Brian Massumi, Luciana Parisi, Jasbir Puar, Amit S. Rai, Eugene Thacker, Çäatay Topal, Craig Willse

Acknowledgments viiIntroduction. Beyond Biopolitics: The Governance of Life and Death / Patricia Ticento Clough and Craig Willse 1Part I. Unexceptional Control: Governance, Race, and Population1. National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology of Powers / Brian Massumi 192. Human Security/National Security: Gender Branding and Population Racism / Patricia Ticento Clough and Craig Willse 463. "The Turban is Not a Hat": Queer Diaspora and Practices of Profiling / Jasbir Puar 654. Strict Scrutiny: The Tragedy of Constitutional Law / Sora Y. Han 106Part II. Preemption: Death and Life-Itself5. Necrologies; or, the Death of the Body Politic / Eugene Thacker 1396. Mnemonic Control / Luciana Parisi and Steve Goodman 1637. Thanato-tactics / Eyal Weizman 177Part III. Transforming Value: The Measure of Life Capacities8. Strange Circulations / Ann S. Anagnost 2139. Necropolitical Surveillance: Immigrants from Turkey in Germany / Çagatay Topal 23810. From the Race War to the War on Terror / Randy Martin 258Part IV. Technological Investments: Temporality, Media, and Methodologies11. "Seeing" Spectral Agencies: An Analysis of Lin+Lam and Unidentified Vietnam / Una Chung 27712. Here We Accrete Durations: Toward a Practice of Intervals in the Perceptual Mode of Power / Amit S. Rai 30613. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe / May Joseph 33214. Blackness and Governance / Fred Moten and Stefano Harney 351Bibliography 363Contributors 381Index 385