Post-politics

Post-politics is a depoliticized form of politics. The frame, which it actually applies to discuss is already taken for granted.

The term was developed by Jacques Rancière as a concept of political philosophy in France, from the tradition of Louis Althusser's coming, as well as the term " post-democracy " as far-reaching legal and channeling so state disciplining political energies.

Use

According to Slavoj Žižek post-politics is a process by which information about the negotiation of interests, [ ... ] a more or less general compromise is made. The aim is no longer a public debate, a politicization, but non-ideological ideas that work in the context (global capitalist ). A lot of experts (global) social workers and others mobilized to address concrete political demands: it is to be prevented, they can be generalized or systemic effect. " The general concern, which is charged by a particular group, to a problem of this group " ( Žižek ). But just a metaphorical universalization can not develop without a hassle of the particulate group interests themselves. This is not suppressed by Žižek, but ( paradoxically ) by taking in into the system, into the apparatus, excluded. Claims are handled only by the mere content and not according to what is meant. Thus, the post- policy attempts to universalize the ( inflated ) to prevent metaphor: The cry of " Down with the new tax! " About, something universal is addressed from a particular point of view, more than the obvious content - the situation is so politicized.

Another indication of the post-politics is that government programs more than just "work" are referred sprogramme, as "pure" administrative work. It applies " best solutions " intellectually (logos) to find, without (necessary) political dispute ( polemos ). But in politics, as a result of the issue of redistribution or of a breakdown, no logos without polemos possible, not without a policy formulating the interests and viewpoints. Žižek's alternative: "Real politics is the exact opposite of that is the ' art of the impossible '. , You just changed the parameters of what is considered in the existing constellation as 'possible ' "