Politics
Politics (from , meaning "affairs of the cities") is the process of making decisions that apply to members of a group.
Post-politics
Against the widespread resignation to addressing politics solely at the ontic or empirical level – that is, a concern with the "facts of politics" or with politics as 'the exercise of power or the deciding of common affairs' – this re-envisioning must, they say, concern itself with the ontological dimension of politics: that is, with the essence of the political. While each conceptualises the properly political in different ways, all agree upon its irreducibly and inherently antagonistic dimension: a radical-progressive position must, says Žižek, 'insist on the unconditional primacy of the inherent antagonism as constitutive of the political'. Hence the charge that post-politics, with consensus as its defining logic, forecloses the properly political.