Cosmopolitanism in Light of Allagmatics

Abstract

Theorizing with the allagmatic theory settled by Gilbert Simondon, this paper aims to
provoke, in the concept of cosmopolitanism, ontological, epistemological and ethical variations.
Breaking with the substantialist primacies which presents cosmopolitanism as a value, the paper aims
to overturn that horizon to present cosmopolitanism as a process. Thinking of cosmopolitanism as a
process rather than as a regulative ideal, allows to undertake the different ontological, epistemological
and ethical engagements, not as abstractions, but as becoming-limits. Cosmopolitanism, thought in the
light of allagmatics, entangles the production of an open ontology, epistemology, and ethics capable of
experiencing dissimilar modes of existence. Cosmopolitanism is a process always to be done and to be
affirmed in which we gamble the possibility of expressing a dignified life.