The Non-Perplexity of Human Rights

What do we (think we) speak about when we speak of Human Rights? Mostly, of the fate of the vulnerable Human-being in her beingness in the world. I suggest a different reason underpins the invention and operation of Human Rights: as a (post) colonial technology of subjectification, Human Rights operates to rationalize and regulate the global (b)ordering of differentiated subject-beingness: of license, containment and abandonment. Efforts to 'rescue' Human Rights for the human-subject therefore merely reinforce the adaptive operations of global governmentality to norm-alize and resettle the World. Against this I propose a return to an anti-colonial philosophical orientation of desubjectification.