Editor's Introduction

Abstract

Another possibility? Are you saying that there were opportunities before? - yes. That's what we're saying: there have been, there are, and there will be other, alternative –historical, political, and ontological–possibilities. All those who deny this simple truth are enemies of the future, which, however, is irreversible. Speculatively, we propose a set that is ready for an endless optimistic postscript, but does not forget about the tragedy of actual events: heterogeneous at first glance, the texts collected in the number establish a different possibility.; The founding situation opens up to a radical horizon, and it stretches further and further than erehwon prescribes. The exchange of utopia for Messianism? Thanks, keep it with you. The exchange rate of philosophy, with which we are accustomed to manage the order of things – say, words – to break the entanglement of traditions and their habitual confrontations, exchanges only for boredom. So much the better for us: since the present has ceased to be reality, it is time for us to look at the present as a possibility; and isn't this what Foucault is talking about when he calls us to the ontology of the present? The present is more than possible. But the word, as our weapon, must be performative and constitutive; constitutive, however, to the extent that we are really ready to endure all this gaping but necessary openness.