Interdisciplinary collection of essays on the techniques of governance and economy that are used to organize populations around questions of life and death.

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