My project challenges conventional accounts of democracy by investigating the administrative presumptions that engender these conceptualizations. Its aim is to demonstrate that what is portrayed as democratic is to a large extent undemocratic. And, moreover, the project attempts to provide an account of what could be democratic by exploring the way stupidity’s disruptive power of intelligence is a form of democratic intervention.  

An assessment of mainstream political theories unveils a deeper repressive and undemocratic tendency inherent in political philosophy: the assumption that the polis is the public realm of intelligence where those capable of making decisions grounded on reason are free while those lacking the capacity to participate [the idios] are to be safeguarded in the private realm. Against this posture, my project aims to demonstrate that it is possible to conceptualize politics without an administrative axiom and therefore surpass the presupposition that politics concerns the government of those who cannot govern themselves.  

The final argument of my project employs this corruptive power of stupidity to argue that it can serve as a counter-hegemonic posture. Stupidity is not a refusal or an alternative model of knowledge, it is constructed as the possibility of indeterminacy/non-knowledge turning into a revolutionary position.