ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that technocracy has replaced politics proper. It is the particular kind of craft of government that evolved out of modern politics and reaches, in Migration Management, a new quality. Technocracy establishes a particular knowledge on 139the basis of enumerations and calculation – it establishes an empirical universality. Technocracy atrophies democracy by reducing it to mere questions of calculation and the distribution of functions in an attempt at totalizing closure against dissent and alterity. The chapter elaborates the meaning and functioning of technocracy. It looks at hyperlegalism as a tool alongside and within technocracy. It discusses the consequence of those governmental practices called Migration Management for those acted upon and thereby shows that Migration Management is an instance of radical violence. The chapter suggests that the Trilateral Commission, which formulated the horizon within which the Intergovernmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum and Refugees (IGC) started to think about international migration, is an expression of a partage du sensible.
