Genealogy of the political subject: cynical modus of sociality

Analysis of the phenomenon of cynicism and accompanying psycho-, socio-political circumstances requires a fundamentally new look at what is happening. Theoretical description, with the political and legal world as its subjects, involves essences that demonstrate a universal character. This categorical series includes a number of phenomena of thinking, language and power. Empirically, it is the concept of power that is closer and clearer than the others. It is habitual to think of power as coercion that comes from outside and determines the behavior of the individual. And often it is involved in political theory and philosophy of sociality. To think about power as a generic principle is still unusual. It is unusual to interpret power as a condition of the subject itself. The difficulty is that power interpreted so has no formal representation, it is not directly correlated with any social institution. Positivist optics sees this state of affairs as something suspicious - for the subject perceives the consequence of this power, structurally unfixed in the field of the social, as authentic modes of self-existence. Another condition of exercise of power is its ambivalence: by managing power, the subject does not always notice how the power manages it, which becomes obvious if to take a look at public authority. Politics and power go hand in hand. As a global technology of mass management politics has a habitualizing effect: "cynicism of the master" and "cynicism of the servants" operate in a single mode. Of course, the latter is more veiled, it is more difficult to recognize. But, most importantly, it is psychopathic. This form of cynicism, surprisingly, is not aggressive outwardly. In the political sphere it is often not associated with a cynical choice or a cynical action. The ambivalence of the modern type of sociality indicates mutually exclusive tendencies of common sense - complication of the social field and its configurations with simultaneous unification of singularities acting within the boundaries of various social fields. The question of the "inner form" of social mechanics involves the plot of the intentional correlation of subjects of dominance and submission with the surrounding social space. It is these patterns of activity of consciousness and unconsciousness - collective and individual - should be interesting for social theorists and philosophers of power. In the proposed horizon cynicism is a truly universal form of thought - action - being. It is a particular habitus of subjectivity designed to streamline the social being, place it in the world of / for individuals to make this world minimally costly for them. The question of the cynical habitus structure has many dimensions. We postulate the reflexive a priori as a genuine reason to cynicism.

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