ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes Michel Foucault's thought on freedom as an exemplar of free thought, an experience of thought that itself liberates us from our identity. It discusses anti-biopolitical strategy of the counterproductive 'refusal of care' that runs against the dominant tendencies in contemporary critical thought. While today's critical discourse in political and international relations theory is constituted by a diverse critique of sovereignty of both the state and the subject, the book reaffirms sovereignty as, in a strict sense, another name for freedom, its rigorous ontopolitical counterpart. Nonetheless, when concretised as a mode of political practice, the ethos of sovereign freedom does not posit a teleology of our empowerment as sovereigns in the positive sense, but rather invokes the possibility of the weakening of all power as the outcome of our ceaseless resistance to the diagrammatic abduction of our existence.
