La Guerra como Partera Ontológica: Hacia una Teoría Crítica de la Producción del ser, el Territorio y la Gobernanza en Contextos de Conflictividad Permanente

The theory of war as an ontological midwife, proposed by Jhon Fredy Rentería, represents a radical break with classical approaches to war and postwar by rejecting the understanding of armed conflict as an exceptional and transitory event. In contrast, this theory argues that war operates as a structuring device of social ontology, capable of producing subjects, territorialities, economies, and regimes of meaning that persist beyond the formal cessation of hostilities. From this perspective, the so-called “postwar” does not constitute a stage of overcoming conflict, but rather an ontological reconfiguration of it, in which warlike logics are transformed into administrative, legal, economic, and symbolic technologies of governance. The proposed approach engages critically with theories of peace, post-conflict, necropolitics, and protracted wars, revealing their limitations in explaining the structural continuity of violence in formally pacified territories. Based on its own analytical categories—such as dissolutive geocenosis, labor nomadism of the rifle, and narrative metastasis of exogenous governance—the theory demonstrates that war does not disappear, but instead gives birth to new forms of social being adapted to permanent exceptionality. Consequently, this conceptual framework offers a critical tool for reinterpreting contemporary processes of security, governance, and territorial ordering, particularly in Latin American contexts marked by chronic conflicts and hybrid wars.