The political act is divided between ontic content and ontological function.

Evidence

Because the act, on the one hand, brings about a new (ontic) order, but, on the other, has an ordering (ontological) function, it is the locus of a complex game by which a concrete content actualizes, through its very concreteness, something that is entirely different from itself: what I have called the absent fullness of society. It is easy to see why, without the very complexity of this game, there would be no hegemony and no popular identities. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 451

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The people emerges through an act creating new order. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 450; Political types differ less in beliefs than in relations to those beliefs. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 61; Formal logic and law serve the status quo once stripped of political content — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 225

Broader Connections

• Political types differ less in beliefs than in relations to those beliefs. #expands (0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 61
• Formal logic and law serve the status quo once stripped of political content #expands (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 225