"The human" was one more empty or nonexistent universal—perhaps the nonexistent universal—fulfilling a highly mobile set of functions for the various institutions that generate and redistribute power by defining humanness. Why, then, should Foucault have felt the slightest indignation at the replacement of the human by the post-human, which he prophesied in the Biopolitics lecture and elsewhere in his work? Indeed, he didn’t. For him, there was nothing tragic about all that is solid melting into air. This was the grim flipside of Foucault’s absolute commitment to denormalization, the high price associated with his critical nominalism.