ABSTRACT
The central purpose of this book has been to draw attention to how the compass of human existence begins to be drawn too tightly around utilitarian and instrumental measures of what it means to be human, more generally also what it means to be a living thing, when species life is taken to be the referent object of politics and power, subject thereby to the logics and dynamics of the biopolitical economy of species existence – espèce humaine/être biologique. The charge is even more pointed than that. The objection is made that a dangerous paradox appears to be at work here. The more the emancipatory politics of the biohuman circumscribes the politics of emancipation, specifically in seeking to make war to remove the scourge of war from the human, the more intensively do biopolitical imperatives intrude into everyday life, and the more extensively are they applied globally. There is, thus, a necropolitics to this advance in the biopoliticization of liberal rule in the age of life as information.
