Verbatim quote · defining passage

“To name is both to reify, to create a role independent of whoever fills it, and to singularize, insofar as we can always distinguish between those who more or less adequately or authoritatively “inhabit” that name. the reification is then less an alienation or objectification than the creation of a new set of capacities.”

— Adam Katz, Sovereign as Onomastician-in-Chief · Jul 2017 · GABlog