The Void in Podemos: Meontology of Political Change in Spain
Abstract
Mainstream analyses of the original Podemos (2014-2016) have tended to focus more on what Podemos was (its leaders, membership, voters, program and discourse) rather than on what it was not (its negativity, lack of essence or the void that it came to represent). The ontological presupposition that Podemos re-presents a certain being with a determinate essence could be seen even in its internal crises. Conversely, this paper first looks for precedents of a political meontology in the works of Marx, Schmitt and Laclau; only to later apply its fundamental theses to current debates around Podemos’ populism: its supposedly “normative deficit” and its relation to both republicanism and radical democracy.
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