Technologies of Humanness, Aporias of Biopolitics, and the Cut Body of Humanity

What is nazism if not also the worst moment in the history of technology? “Worst” can serve as a rhetorical qualification of “moment,” which may not be restricted or an indication of closure. The worst moment in the history of technology may not have an off switch, but only a modality of being on. —Ronell 16 Today politics knows no value (and, consequently, no nonvalue) other than life, and until the contradictions that this fact implies are dissolved, Nazism and fascism—which transformed the decision on bare life into the supreme political principle— will remain stubbornly with us. —Agamben, Homo Sacer 10