Chantel MouffeThinkers

Democracy is not possible where adversarial identities do not exist, and the growth of religious nationalist or ethnic identities where only friend/enemy type relations dominate, adversarial positions less likely.

Democracy is the mode through which antagonisms in the social are deflected into agonistic dispute between egalitarian adversaries.

Film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through.

Identity is always contingent and precarious, temporarily fixed at the intersection of various subject positions, constructed by a diversity of discourses among which there is no necessary relation, but rather a constant movement of overdetermination and displacement.

The Social agent is constituted by an ensemble of 'subject positions' that can never be totally fixed in a closed system of differences, constructed by a diversity of discourses among which there is no necessary relation, but rather a constant movement of overdetermination and displacement.

The Subject is not a content, but a performance, a happening born, existing, and transformed in social discourses.