El artículo estudia tres formas diferentes de articulación del «discurso poshegemónico»: el uso histórico, la construcción ontológica y las teorías de la multitud, identificado la específica modalidad de negación del concepto de hegemonía que opera en cada una de ellas. Se evalúa el rendimiento de estas críticas desde el punto de vista de su efectividad histórica. Es decir, considerando su capacidad para diagnosticar adecuadamente las sociedades contemporáneas y su energía para desarrollar un pensamiento y una acción política transformadora que esté (...) en condiciones de suponer un antagonismo sustantivo a las condiciones imperantes del poder en nuestro presente. (shrink)

Throughout the last two decades, discussions around “post-hegemony” have stimulated exchanges around different theorizations of “hegemony” and their limits – not only the one by Antonio Gramsci, but also the predominantly discursive reformulation put forward by Laclau & Mouffe. Very recently, a new article by Peter Thomas on post-hegemony (2020) is triggering new debates on the issue. In this paper, Thomas’s contribution is, first, presented and discussed. In the second section, certain issues that have been recently raised from a post-hegemonic (...) perspective vis-à-vis Thomas’s intervention and beyond are thematized. These two exercises provide an opportunity to clarify further, by way of conclusion, certain issues at stake in the ensuing debate from an Essex School perspective. (shrink)

In this essay, hegemony in traditional Marxism is posited as a social ontology based on overcoming the alienation of the masses. The aim of hegemony is to produce the full realization through the work of the proletariat as one specific political subject, as a collective version of the bourgeois subject. The emancipation through hegemony marks the self-realization of the proletariat as the subject of history, as one subject that somehow imposes itself on the alienated forms of capitalism. On the other (...) hand, poshegemony is thought from the decline of the subjectivist and productivist idolatry of hegemony, from the end of its expired truth, in the name of another promise. (shrink)