Foucault’s historical fictions are mythicalmythmythical in the sense that they deal with the ultimate myth for modernitymodernity, which concerns not this or that particular originorigin but rather the power to identify originsorigin, i.e., a genosgenos, that defines the now (us here today), potentially in an absolute way. The modern myth par excellence is the power of identification itself, which I interpret as the power of social speciationspeciesspeciation according to the logic of specific or speciesspecies differencedifferencespecies difference. It is a specifically linguisticlinguistic power in the sense that language is the field in which the modern practice of speciationspeciesspeciation in the social is most thoroughly naturalized. It is aesthetic in the sense that social speciation hinges on the production of figures of the humanhuman. In tandem with the genealogicalgenealogygenealogical method, Foucault’s tropological experiments with narrativenarrative metalepsismetalepsis and figurationfigurefiguration offer promising avenues for defusing the genocidegenocide trap associated with sovereign desire to control speciation through the apparatus of area and anthropological differenceapparatusapparatus of area and anthropological differencedifferenceanthropological difference.