xx, 244 p. : 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Half a human -- From the earth, through the quake -- Against the tide -- Traveling to the west and the east -- Within the experiment -- Close to death -- Internal objects -- Words of life -- The biopolis -- East of "reason", west of "eternal life" -- Regulating human affairs, fears, emotions -- The economy of human flesh and bones -- The biopolis's vocations -- Twice inert, lifeless and life-less -- Spaces of death -- The pool of the dead -- Mehmed -- Insanity -- Kadavra -- Beyond the mirror -- Dissection and disentchantment -- Burial -- The impossible -- Reburial -- Suicide -- Dying metaphors -- Sacrifice -- Rites of diffusion

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