ABSTRACT
The posthuman is similarly associated with post-structural philosophy. While these ideas have underpinned much of Posthuman Ethics, there are less vitalistic effects of this turn that demand address. Death is now a pronouncement, an agreement between law, medicine and at the troubling interface, ethics. The dominator is not flesh and blood, and thus mediative negotiation the most basic element of ethics is with a dead entity, the ghost of the definition of life and death based on real bodies. Ethics comes at the moment when law permits medicine the decision. Michel Rosenfeld sees postmodernity and its associated lauding of interpretation and multiplicity making law a kind of hybrid discourse between politics and ethics. Necrophilosophy attempts to make sense of death, perhaps in order to deny it, but ethics should be preventing the non-volitional asymmetrical dead-ing of things rather than transcendentally enlightening their being.
