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This text discusses the principles for the critique of the notion of national culture and discerning the dialectic of its cultural-political identity, from a philosophical perspective oriented by the inconsistencies of the relationship between nation-states and market dynamics at the global level, instead of by the interpretation of the meaning of cultural traditions and ethnic identifications or by the liberal pretensions of an integrating system of cultural diversity. Based on Hannah Arendt's diagnosis of the two main symptoms of imperialism as correlate of the consolidation of the Nation-State: racism and the stateless, the possibility of an emancipatory political action of the excluded from the nation will be discussed from a decolonial perspective supported by Frantz Fanon, Tzvetan Todorov and Houria Bouteldja. Finally, through Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, the cultural-political identity of the subject who tries to overcome the inconsistencies of nationalism will be discussed, considering the performativity of his intervention in the public space, the nature of the political events that generates and the critique of the ideology required to specify the dialectical sense of his strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]