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For Martin Heidegger the death that comes singularly for each of us summons us to exist on our own and speak in our own name. But Gilles Delueze and Félix Guattari argue that it is a specific social machinery that summons us to speak in our own name and answer for what we do and are. This summons is a death sentence. They enjoin us to flee this subjectification, this subjection. They do recognize that the release of becomings in all directions can become destructive and self-destructive. There are several weaknesses in their conception.
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Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Writing.
Jean-Paul Sartre, What is Literature? Cited in Gilles Deleuze (2004).
“Subjectiviation as a regime of signs or a form of expression is tied to an assemblage, in other words, an organization of power that is already fully functioning in the economy, rather than superposing itself upon contents or relations between contents determined as real in the last instance. Capital is a point of subjectification par excellence” Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1987).
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Lingis, A. Subjectification. Cont Philos Rev 40, 113–123 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9054-5
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