The Royal Remains"The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereignand the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In The Royal Remains, Eric L. Santner argues that the "carnal" dimension of the structures and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it migrated to a new locationthe life of the peoplewhere something royal continues to