ABSTRACT
The world, in order to be the world, must be understood exclusively as unqualified difference, hence, the only order of politics is a non-qualified actuality (Energeia). The article stands on two fundamental assessments that connected offer a new demonstration of the meaning of being and power that may serve as a clear horizon to rethink politics and common struggles in the 21st century. First, it demonstrates how western philosophy has tied and equated power and beingness to transcendent models to impose necessity and thus power as domination as their only possibility, consequently denying contingency as the ontological order of difference. And second, it strides to prove that another appraisal of Aristotle´s configuration of potentiality and actuality and the latter as a division between Entelecheia and Energeia may open up a new consideration of being and power, dispelling vanguard interpretations such as Agamben´s that blankets political action in impotence. When we read Energeia as power without transcendent finality, contingency, as the order of the political, is released, and with it the possibility of becoming-other is open anew. Contingency means that only when beings exist, not as a necessity, is the meaning of being necessary.
