Abstract
This article applies discussions of biopolitics and rationalities by
governments to make live and let die as a heuristic for the
speculative sorting of bodies and their antibodies as state governments
lurch toward reopening. It considers how governments rationalize the
elimination of certain populations in the name of improving the vitality
of the dominant group. This article is based on the theory by
sociologist Michel Foucault, who called biopolitics the application of
“life-producing techniques” by the state.