Subjects
The subject is constructed in late modernity against the backdrop of a 'world of fragmented and incommensurate identities and personae' - something fully commensurate with the 'rise of "life-style" cultures..."In buying one part of the system, one buys (into) the sign system as a whole...into a lifestyle"'. The framing matrix of the late modern personality is the way 'uncertainty, fragmentation, and ambiguity issue from the disembedded social relations of high (or post-) modernity', impinging upon 'the self-reflexive consciousness of the newly emergent multiple self'.
Arguably at least, 'young women have been produced as ideal subjects of late modernity through a blending of a kind of individualized feminism with neoliberalism'.
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“I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Undoubtedly, all men are not equally fit subjects for civilization; and because the majority, like dogs and sheep, are tame by inherited disposition, this is no reason why the others should have their natures broken that they may be reduced to the same level.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Conversation ... is like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayed in it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)
“There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated by adults who tell him what to do and when to do it—benevolent tyrants who dispense gifts to their “good” subjects and punishment to their “bad” ones, who are amused at the “cleverness” of children and annoyed by their “stupidities.””
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)