Event, Topology and The Formation Of A Political subject

Document Type : Tarviji

Author
hamed Kia
phd student
Abstract
 This article is a theoretical analysis of political subjectivity formation in association with events in discursive disciplines. First, we analyze the subjection process in discourse, and then, by focusing on the concept of topology, we study new mods of subjectivity through invention of new signifiers which end in transgression against laws of discourse. Therefore, we argue that the discursive transformation between subject's inside and its outside forms in a topological space. For this purpose, we consider politics in relation to governmentality for defending discursive disciplines and to cultural dynamics for inventing new modes of subjectivity. As a result, events are threshold of transformation. Mundane signifiers get emptied and filled again with new meanings. Through this process, subject’s inside conjoins with the outside to emerge new states of politics.

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Volume 5, Issue 21
Autumn 2016
Pages 81-100

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