Drawing from the work of Robert Meister, this chapter begins with an analysis of the sources of the fictional basis of modern political community in the temporal imaginary of settler colonialism. The bulk of the chapter turns to Dirk Moses’s pioneering attempt to replace the concept of genocidegenocide with that of permanent security. In light of the species-security nexus established by Foucault, Moses’s proposal remains flawed in the absence of a critical approach to “social speciation” and epistemic decolonization. Moses’s emphasis on permanent security could be fruitfully expanded by Foucault’s insight that security is a species concept. Seen from this Foucauldian perspective, the concept of genocide appeals to causality in a very specific way that takes the temporality of specific or species difference—the genos—as both cause and effect. In that sense, genocide is a trope, specifically the tropic figure of metonymy. As such, the concept of genocide is based on a peculiar form of causality that is aesthetic and figural.