The Individual (n.) is a creature comprehensively bound, the product of something else (in contrast with the subject which is a sovereign unity). It is in fact a power-effect, a relay such that power passes through the individuals it has constituted.
The Individual (n.) is constituted by the fact that certain bodies, certain gestures, certain discourses, certain desires, come to be identified as an effect and articulation of power.
The Individual (n.) is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
The Individual (n.) is not the traditional subject caught in an ontological tug-of-war between liberation and domination.
The Individual (n.) is the closely monitored product of relations between power and knowledge.
The Individual (n.) is the personal space where both active and passive aspects of human agency and identity surface in the context of material practices.