Power

Catherine Driscoll catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Sat Dec 7 05:03:57 PST 2002


Quoting Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu>:


>
>
> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Catherine Driscoll wrote:
>
> > But, isn't there a significant difference between "individuals"
> > and "subjectivity", insofar as you could avoid individualism, but
> > not "subjectivity".
> >
> > Catherine
>
> It is exactly this insistence on the obdurate reality of "subjectivity"
> that intrigues me. The idea that people have unique subjectivities
> emerged in specific societies at specific points in human history; it
> is not simply human nature to conceptualize "subjectivities".

Not what I meant. Individualism (or unique subjectivities) is one discourse on subjectivity. Not the only or definitive one.

Catherine



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