Subjectivity forms through practice, not prior to it.
Evidence
By not engaging in practice, they were unable to develop a cooperative subjectivity. This point is crucial, and Foucault emphasises the importance of practice in the formation of subjectivities: one must create itself through doing (Kelly, 2013). — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning, 85
Categorization
- XREF: Foucault’s practice-based subject formation connects directly to commoning’s circular mechanism and to broader theories of performativity. — connects to: Commoner subjectivities emerge historically through practice rather than being fixed identities. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 47; One cannot understand resistance apart from the embodied attachments a subjectivizing practice enables. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 262; Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 965 (+12 more)
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 85
Related
- Commoner subjectivities emerge historically through practice rather than being fixed identities. (similarity 0.84)
Broader Connections
- Repeated bodily practices form the self rather than merely express it
#corroborates(0.95) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1022 - The subject is produced by culture, not given before it.
#corroborates(0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1193 - One cannot understand resistance apart from the embodied attachments a subjectivizing practice enables.
#expands(0.85) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 262 - Outward practices create inner desires rather than express them
#expands(0.85) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1068 - Subjectivity forms itself across plastic sites rather than pre-existing them
#corroborates(0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 289 - The subject is positioned by and within discourse, not the source of it
#corroborates(0.85) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 184 - Bodily practice endows subjects with capacities to act in the world
#expands(0.80) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 965 - Subjectivity is formed not by single moments but by accumulated historical sedimentation
#expands(0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 307 - Group solidarity can form through shared bodily practice, not shared ideas
#exemplifies(0.80) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 686 - Ethics is constituted by practical activities and embodied dispositions, not by norms or ideas
#expands(0.80) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 204 - Collective ways of life depend on embodied practice, not just recognition of group identity.
#exemplifies(0.80) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 868 - Embodied practice constitutes a precondition for religious experience
#qualifies(0.75) - Discourse establishes authority through the formation of subjects, not mere assertion
#expands(0.75) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 820