This book explores and exposes the many aspects of contemporary biopower and bioviolence: neglect, exclusion, surveillance, regulation, encampment, trolling, fake news, terrorism and war. It argues that the use of bioviolence is how the contemporary powers that be make us do what they want.

Preface Introduction: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and the Abolition of Violence Part One: Regulatory Bioviolence Chapter 1 - Aylan Kurdi and the Index of Responsibility Chapter 2 - The Construction of Life: Specie-fication, Race War and Immunitas Chapter 3 - Rise of the Paedophobes! Or the Coercive Power of Norms, Regulation, Population and Massification in the Case of Migrant Children Chapter 4 - Death on the Beaches: Bioviolence Defined Part Two: Humanimals and Bare life Chapter 5 - #Harambe and the Construction of Life Chapter 6 - Humanimals and the Abolition of Life Part Three: Decapitation and the Digital Caliphate Chapter 7 - ISIS and the Art of Decapitation Chapter 8 - Biohistory: The Human, The Head, The Tool, The Cut and The Tribe Part Four: The Global Camp Chapter 9 - Days of Raqqa and the Bethnal Green Girls Chapter 10 - Shamima Begum, our Femina Sacra Chapter 11 - Reading Guantanamo or Camp as Coercion Part Five: 2020, I can't breathe Chapter 12 - George Floyd and #BlackLivesMatter: Thoughts Chapter 13 - Herd Immunity: COVID and Coercion Conclusion: Apologia for a Theory of Political Acéphalism