debates was guilty / innocent was debates

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Tue Oct 17 08:48:09 PDT 2000


On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:16:55 -0700 (PDT) Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:


> Umm...no. We are socially (not psychically!) constrained to be
> unitary subjects.

Sorry, I didn't address this point... No social constraint can enforce unification upon subjectivity (all such attempts, of course, are violent). The idea of unity is an illusion - pure fantasy. Legal systems might assume that we are unified, and they might act like we are unified, but let's not be fooled, the legal system is no more unified than the subject upon which it seeks to imprint its right.

ken



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