Around negative sovereignty: ontology, comunication and subject

Abstract

After recognizing Georges Bataille´s influence in contemporary debates of political philosophy and political thought critical of sovereignty´s theological-political, this text studies negative sovereignty as the atheologics and impolitics way that Bataille’s thought sovereignty. Considering that the development of sovereignty in the Bataille´s work is a complex plot that concentrates concepts, terms and conceptions of the being, the subject and the community (from such diverse approaches as economics, philosophy, politics, anthropology, theory of religion, etc.) this article is structured around the following elements: in first place, the layout of the impairment´s ontology that is the basis of this perspective; in second place, the presentation of the economy of communication and the irreducible violence it entails and, finally, the problematization of sovereign subjectivity and its paradoxes.