Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes systematic theoretical analysis of not only some of the effects of post-politics on political subjectification, but of how its affective logics are integral to its regimes of power, regimes which help condition the field of power in which political subjectification takes place. It conceptualises the post-political nature of neoliberalism, many but not all of neoliberalisms characteristics are generic to capitalism. Agonism is a political theory which, following the ancient Greeks, asserts contest and struggle as the proper bases for politics. The book discusses the social regime as a more specific type of dispositif. Politics and International Relations seem to exhibit an ever-increasing demand both for work on the problem of the fore closure of the political and in the development of ideas drawn from Benjamin, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Deleuze. This book focuses on the theological reasoning of modern biopolitics.