ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 takes its point of departure from Giorgio Agamben’s genealogy of economic government to outline the logic of the governmental procedure, which consists in the constitution and maintenance of the order or the ‘economy’ of the world. The key finding of Agamben’s genealogy is the radical chasm between this order and the ontological dimension, the gap between praxis and being. Worldly orders have no foundation in being and are therefore contingent and transformable. Yet, rather than infer from this contingency the dispensability of government, the governmental procedure uses it to insist on its necessity, so that the solution to the problems of government is always more government.
