Recent world events have emphatically shown our need for tools with which to develop better understandings of the politics of suicide.

Kamikaze 1.1 State suicide 1.2 Politics, the assemblage of desire 1.3 The fascist assemblage 1.4 Revolution and annihilation 1.5 Mishima's revolution Self-burning 2.1 Immolare 2.2 Death and Desire 2.3 Events and Death 2.4 Palach's revolution Hunger-striking 3.1 Crossing the threshold 3.2 Bodily Inscription 3.3 Decoding death 3.4 Exchange 3.5 Terror and Production Terror 4.1 Human bomb 4.2 The Despot 4.3 Liberal Suicides 4.4 Terror and Liberalism 4.5 A politics from the outside Cult and Revolution 5.1 Revolutionary suicide 5.2 Jonestown 5.3 Millenarianism 5.4 Dying well 5.5 Afterword: On machines

Nicholas Michelsen is Lecturer in International Relations Theory in the Department of War Studies at King's College London.