Metapolitics


Metapolitics sometimes the thing that is said meta-politics is metalinguistic talk about politics; a political dialogue about politics itself. In this mode, metapolitics takes on various forms of inquiry, appropriating to itself another way toward the discourse of politics as alive as the political. It assumes a self-conscious role of mediating the analytic, synthetic, & normative language of political inquiry in addition to politics itself.

The Linguistic communication used for studying, analyzing, and describing a language is a Subject and their explanation to political theory. In its broadest definition, metapolitics is a discipline that studies the relationship between the state and the individual.

Contemporary views


By ‘metapolitics’ I intend whatever consequences a philosophy is capable of drawing, both in and for itself, from real instances of politics as thought. Metapolitics is opposed to political philosophy, which claims that since no such(a) politics exists, it falls to philosophers to think ‘the’ political.

Alain Badiou, April 1998

Two important contemporary thinkers in the field of metapolitics are Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. examine Badiou's Metapolitics, Bruno Bosteels asserts that: