Optional Ⓐntology of Anarchism
Abstract
It would be a regrettable omission not to pay attention to the fact that “power” itself can be the subject of philosophical inquiry. However, “the philosophy of power” is not ontology (and it is precisely about ontology that we want to talk), just as it would be wrong to read epistemological treatises as if they were talking about something other than our cognitive abilities (does Kant tell us what the world is really like?), except in those cases when we say that “everything is power or “everything is our cognitive abilities.” We would like to move away from such logic of generalization.
The philosophy of power proceeds from the assumption that power is its central concept. Beginningless ontology—Ⓐntology, has no center. But this does not mean that it does not speak of power. Power is present in it as an object of thought, but not as a center, but as one of many.
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