An appointed and uncorrectable earthly fate replaces the rule of law.

Evidence

Werner Best op. cit., explained: “Whether the will of the government lays down the ‘right’ rules …is no longer a question of law, but a question of fate. For actual misuses …will be punished more surely before history by fate itself with misfortune and overthrow and ruin, because of the violation of the ‘laws of life,’ than by a State Court of Justice.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2694

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the totalitarian substitution of ‘laws of life’/fate for positive law — a core concept in the biopolitics/necropolitics toolkit.
• XREF: This fate-replacing-law mechanism is the biopolitical antecedent of later necropolitical analyses of sovereignty over life — connects to Foucault and Mbembe in the reader’s field. — connects to: Law turned from a multiplier of royal power into its subtractor. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 161; Governance replaces justice and right with efficiency and efficacy. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 253; Recourse to random chance seeks a justice immune to human will. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 576