Subjectivity is formed not by single moments but by accumulated historical sedimentation

Evidence

The original Gramscian idea of an ‘inventory of traces’ presumes that there is a personality, a cultural location, upon which those traces are inscribed; it presumes that there are other ‘traces’ into which these traces are woven, so that the personality that emerges out of this weave, this overlap, is conditioned not by a specific set of traces but by the whole of its history. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 307

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Gramsci’s ‘inventory of traces’ against the reductionist reading that inflated it into ‘constituted by colonialism’.
• XREF: connects to: Subjectivity forms itself across plastic sites rather than pre-existing them — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 289; A class’s historical fate registers as an internal felt mood rather than external data — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 743; Subjectivity forms through practice, not prior to it. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 85 (+3 more)

Related

• Personhood is conditioned by accumulated sedimentations, not by single defining moments. (similarity 0.87)
• Subjectivity forms itself across plastic sites rather than pre-existing them (similarity 0.81)