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 -- Rites of diffusion -- Reburial -- Suicide -- Dying metaphors -- Sacrifice -- The possible.