"As something possible, death is supposed to show as little as possible of its possibility", writes Heidegger in Being and Time (p.251). Yet what happens if the moment of our death is fully revealed to us, such as through capital punishment?

As the V2 rockets fell on London in 1944 Theodor Adorno wrote, "I have seen the world-spirit," not on horse-back, but on wings and without a head". What this acephalic weltgeist harboured, Gregoire Chamayou argues in Drone Theory, was the total effacement of any identifiable subject that

Necro-Ethics and the Categorical Imperative