Power of powers

Abstract

This work conceives 21st-century Argentina, which is contemporary to us, crossed, sustained, and governed by a power of powers, a cognitive force (i.e., political) constituted around a knot woven by thick threads. These threads -the mafia power and the fascist power respond to the same rational-constitutive principle -the zigzagging- and share a purpose, which concerns emancipation, its inhibition. The hypothesis, which organizes the cognitive process can be synthesized as follows: The power constituted around the figure of President Javier Milei (2023-¿?) adheres, in part, to that configured around the figure of former President Mauricio Macri (2015-2019). Methodologically, these reflections weave together knowledge from different disciplinary origins: the philosophy of praxis, the sociology of organizations, and a (political) theory of liberation. The central objective of the work is to theoretically analyze the current Argentine political scene - governed by the “libertarian” power - to imagine some possible modalities for political emancipation. The conclusions are shaped around the concept of cookism, which expresses a connection - without fusions - between the major political traditions of emancipatory struggle in Argentina.