The question is what produces individuality, not how society acts on individuals

Evidence

By questioning the prediscursive status of the concept of subject, and inquiring instead into the relations of power that produce it, Butler breaks with those feminist analysts who have formulated the issue of personhood in terms of the relative autonomy of the individual from the social. Thus the issue for Butler is not how the social en.. acts the individual ( as it was for generations of feminists), but what are the discursive conditions that sustain the entire metaphysical edifi of contem.. porary individuality. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 137

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• XREF: connects to: The self’s seeming uniqueness is a mass-produced commodity falsely posed as natural — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 117; Individuality cannot escape the social system because its inner essence already embodies that system; Unchecked individualism destroys individuality rather than protecting it — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 169 (+4 more)