ABSTRACT
Over the course of the past twenty years, and with considerable trepidation over the full though as yet largely undetermined political and intellectual implications, critics have begun asserting that Latin America, if not already the planet in its entirety, has entered a posthegemonic age. By posthegemony, therefore, one understands not only this decentering of the nation-state form under conditions of contemporary neoliberalism, but consequently the need to fundamentally rethink current theories of state political power in order to offer a more adequate accounting of its social, political, and cultural effects. A key instance of which can be found, interestingly, in Alberto Moreiras's work on posthegemony, for it provides a very interesting juxtaposition with the framework laid out by Massumi. One should therefore avoid reading the posthegemonic as a simple relation that presupposes any outside or beyond to hegemony, or ideology, or to politics, and/or positionality, without losing what may be its most critical and productive quality for future political thought.
