Thinking the Formation of Political Subjectivity Based on the Will to Fiction of Friedrich Nietzsche

Abstract

This article responds to the demand for thinking about a notion of politics and subjectivity beyond the modern and hegemonic rationality frames. To that end, it explores the elements of the political subjectivity that can be thought with the conceptual framework that revolves around the notion of the will to fiction of Friedrich Nietzsche. This way, we start from the assumption that it is possible to find a thought or political philosophy in the German author that can be called interpretive or hermeneutic agonism. As a result, we highlight the feasibility to think about the formation of subjectivity, based on the will to fiction, taking into account the following elements: the consciousness of the power of the fictional, and relational nature of existence; the possibility of transformation of power structures from the configuration of senses from the perspective of the body, the earth, and life; furthermore, the transfiguration of one’s own subjectivity.