Theories of agency and freedom have neglected the question of submission.

Evidence

If the agenda continues to be to articulate a theory of agency and freedom, to articulate a theory of formation, the making and the giving of form to the matter at hand, it would seem unsurprisingly necessary to address as well the question of passivity and of submission, perhaps of absolute submission, if only to determine what it is that we-and power itself, in its dissimulation-appear to want to escape, to emancipate ourselves from, by way of acts, action, formation, production, labor, praxis and work. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 117

Categorization

• QUESTION: This frames the whole chapter’s thesis: is there a history of absolute subjection? Worth chasing how this grounds the later Paul-as-slave reading.