Term
Identity
used in 87 texts across the archive
“Identities will take on names, but more fundamentally the notion refers here to style, figuration, and idiom. Your maintenance of an identity, given to as much as taken by you, is the way you know things and make things known to others.”
In use
“If the difference between the two is reduced to the infinitesimal, the two will be changing positions, so your identity is simultaneously that of a learner as well as teacher.”
“Insofar as we have a new center, that center wants to be more central: if we have a center we are using the same sign, and its identity is affirmed in the self-reference that situates one scene generated by the sign in a history of scenes with an origin that is continually marked.”
“But we can’t do without sovereignty—it meets some very definite human needs, and is, in fact, what people usually mean when they speak about “human nature.” Sovereignty provides identity, which is first of all self-sovereignty, and, again, is inimical to freedom, as identity is just another set of shackles.”
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