29 March 2022

A subject is an individual who has been seized by an event and finds new orientation by participating in the collective work of producing a truth.

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taiji heartwork said...

Kenneth Reinhard in the introduction to Alain Badiou: Immanence of Truths

For Badiou the subject is not a figure of consciousness or willful agency, but the local instantiation of an unfolding truth procedure, a process that can expand and continue indefinitely and unpredictably, and that may draw numerous finite individuals and objects into its infinite work. A subject is an individual who has been seized by an event and finds new orientation by participating in the collective work of producing a truth.