The Theory Of Dominationist Consciousness

Domination in late modernity is no longer an external force imposed on people but has become an intrinsic, self-organizing condition embedded in biology, ecology, and thought. The Theory of Dominationist Consciousness argues that power reproduces through structures that appear to oppose it, operating across six interconnected strata: macropolitical, institutional and ideological, biopolitical, necropolitical, epigenetic and psychological, and ontological. This framework synthesizes macropolitical economy, Foucauldian biopolitics, Mbembean necropolitics, epigenetics, trauma theory, phenomenology, and Western esoteric traditions to describe how domination becomes an ontological and biological condition of existence.

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Abstract

This paper presents the Theory of Dominationist Consciousness as a comprehensive, multi-register framework for understanding how systems of power evolve beyond economic or ideological hegemony to become ontological and biological conditions of existence. The theory advances a foundational claim: that domination in late modernity has ceased to be an external imposition upon human subjects and has instead become immanent to being itself-a self-organizing ecological, biological, and epistemic condition that reproduces through the very structures of life and thought that appear to oppose it. Drawing on macropolitical economy, Foucauldian biopolitics, Mbembean necropolitics, contemporary epigenetics, trauma theory, phenomenology, and Western esoteric traditions, the theory maps domination across six mutually reinforcing structural strata: macropolitical, institutional and ideological, biopolitical, necropolitical, epigenetic and psychological, and ontological.