This book explains how biopolitical arguments, theories, and perspectives have attempted to understand how life itself is being captured within the field of politics.

François Debrix is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the ASPECT Program at Virginia Tech, USA.

Introduction: global powers of horror

1. Vulnerable bodies: rethinking camp-life and biopolitics

2. Time and the sovereign body: how security politics confronts the horror of finitude

3. Body parts of terror: rethinking security politics through the disseminated body

4. Severing heads: deconstruction hors texte, or what remains of the human

Epilogue: fusing remnants at the 9/11 Memorial Museum