Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Beyond Biopolitics 1
5. Part I Unexceptional control: Governance, race, and population
6. 1. National Enterprise Emergency 19
7. 2. Human Security/National Security 46
8. 3. “The Turban Is Not a Hat” 65
9. 4. Strict Scrutiny 106
10. Part II Preemption: death and life-itself
11. 5. Necrologies 139
12. 6. Mnemonic Control 163
13. 7. Thanato-Tactics 177
14. Part III Transforming Value: The Measure of life capacities
15. 8. Strange Circulations 213
16. 9. Necropolitical Surveillance 238
17. 10. From the Race War to the War on Terror 258
18. Part IV Technological investments: temporality, Media, and Methodologies
19. 11. “Seeing” Spectral Agencies 277
20. 12. Here We Accrete Durations 306
21. 13. Fascia and the Grimace of Catastrophe 332
22. 14. Blackness and Governance 351
23. Bibliography 363
24. Contributors 381
25. Index 385