How does the future of the concept of the "political" appear in a world marked by two apparently opposite trends: the tendency towards globalization and that of reconstituting new forms of sovereignty? The theses presented in "Interregnum" revolve around two key words: biopolitics and post-hegemony. The meeting of these terms reveals both points of friction and convergence, and the need for an anti-essentialist redefinition of the competing notions of "the people" and "the multitude".