In this paper I discuss the current global political moment in terms of the complex, potentially antagonistic relations between what I call the war to be human and becoming human in a time of war. I focus on the legacies of an imperial capitalist order of humanity and its regime of disposable life in the contemporary context of the Philippines in order to consider the meaning and challenges of becoming human in our time. Looking at the expressions of nationalist struggle on the part of activists facing extrajudicial execution by paramilitary forces of the government and on the part of feminists confronting the dehumanizing conditions of overseas women domestic workers, I analyze the violence of globalization, neoliberal democratization, and human rights governmentality as the product of dominant processes of humanization. I argue that the global norms of these processes are predicated upon the u!er devaluation of and relentless assault on the social reproduction of marginalized communities, who are continuously pushed beyond the brink of human belonging. Feminist and nationalist projects that seek to emancipate women from dehumanizing conditions of life through appeals to the rule of law or through participation in an expanding market economy ironically continue to depend on this dominant politics of humanization. To view the remainders of these present-oriented movements, I propose the notion of “life-times” as a concept for reckoning with the diverse array of acts, capacities, associations, aspirations in practice, and sensibilities that people engage in and draw upon in the e"ort to make and remake social life in situations of life-threatening hardship, deprivation, and precariousness. I reconsider the human question by a!ending to the recent work of Filipina artist and activist Kiri Dalena, whose documentary #lm work and art installations have focused on political atrocities, state repression, social movements, history, violence, and human loss. I focus particularly on Dalena’s recent exhibit, !e Present Disorder Is the Order of the Future, to think about the political potential of remaindered life-times of struggle.