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Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never finished: humans keep displacing it, building an endless series of different selves that will never bring us face to face with something called 'man'.

Subjectivity (n.) always ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠lags behind manifest history, and so invents beneath it another, more secret, more fundamental history — whether called mentalities, the Logos, or the trace.

Subjectivity (n.) enters ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠history through revolt and breathes life into it — not that of great men but anyone's: the convict, the madman, the oppressed people who will no longer bear it.

Subjectivity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the collection of processes through which, in our culture, human beings are made into bearer of political rights and moral responsibilities (that is, subjects).

Subjectivity (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠born in the West by the reverse movement to objectivity: the world became the object of technique, while life stopped being an object of technique and became a test of the self.

Subjectivity (n.) has ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠changed its question: the ancients asked how knowing and practising truth could make them what they ought to be; we ask whether the subject can be known like an object, and how far he must obey the law.