On the destituent in infrapolitics

Abstract

Infrapolitics is a path of thought that aims to reflect on the constitutive outside of the political without taking politics into de-constitution.  As an example of infrapolitical praxis Gareth Williams' Infrapolitical Passages is presented and analysed together with some other texts authored by Williams. Infrapolitics is better understood as politics times two, in the precise measure in which it proposes itself at the same time as a critique of instituent politics and as the necessary condition for a new politics worthy of its name.  Esposito's totalization of political ontology leaves out precisely what could flourish into a posthegemonic destruction of ontological politics in the name of a new invention of democratic praxis.