Includes bibliographical references and index.

Necromancy -- The fluxed matrix -- Replicators in compositions -- Charis vs. the automaton -- The raised power -- Catacombing sensuals -- The multiplicative automatism.

This title explores politics as a form of alchemy, understood as the transformation of entities through an alteration of their identities. Identifying this process as a common denominator of many political phenomena, such as EU integration, mediatisation, communism or globalisation, the author demonstrates not only the widespread presence of alchemical techniques in politics, but also the acceleration of their deployment. A study of the steady growth of power as it reaches a continuous and permanent stage, thus avoiding the inherent difficulties connected with birth and death of political organisations and institutions, this volume reveals political alchemy to be a form of self-sustaining growth through sterile multiplication, devoid of meaning. Will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in social theory and political thought.

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