#affective data

The subject that emerged from the discursive matrices of Western modernity—the product of Cartesian reflexivity, Christian confession, psychoanalytic unmasking, and neoliberal performativity—has now become largely obsolete in both its epistemological and operational valences. The paradigms which once stabilised the self through regimes of interiority, psychopolitical normativity, and…

What we can call the genealogical research of Part 1 has laid bare is not simply a chronological accumulation of epistemic shifts, but the progressive intensification of a condition we may now name as ontological vulnerability, the exposure of the self not merely to discourse, but to the recursive logics of power that pre-structure the possibility of subjecthood itself. From the Cartesian…