Politics is not, at its core, the distribution of resources. It is the distribution of meaning.What appears as policy, governance, or public order is, at a deeper level, a struggle over who gets to define reality and who gets to explain it. This is not a metaphor. It is the operational substrate of all large-scale human organization. Before power disciplines bodies, it disciplines language. Before coercion becomes visible, interpretation has already been conquered.I. Politics as a War of Defi...