Diastasis and the ruin of politics

Abstract

The text contextualises Gareth Williams’ recent book, Infrapolitical Passages, and attempts to present its main themes for the Spanish reader. The insistent question of Williams’ book —the possibility of critical thinking in our present conditions— initiates a shift towards a thinking about existence, not for the sake of an escape from politics but, on the contrary, to expose politics to its constitutive reverse, which is what allows —and it is the one thing that makes it possible— a deconstruction of the ontology of the commodity governing politics in the time of its metaphysical ruin.

Palabras clave 

Infrapolitics, diastasis, katechon, ontotheology.

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