‘who-am-I?’
no longer start from a notion of a
unitary subject as the ground for its investigation. Rather, the agentive subject is the
‘point of departure’ for its own empirical instantiation…
the subject is constantly seeking to
legitimate itself, situated in language practices interactively accomplished, where “world-
and person-making take place simultaneously.”
Thus, the pluralization of identities “disrupts the social ontology of the subject itself …
as the internal impossibility of the subject as a discrete and unitary kind of being”
(Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter,1995, p. 446);
and simultaneously, this pluralization opens a new
empirical territory for where and how subjects come to existence, i.e., sites where
positions are actively and interactively taken (and explored) for the purpose of self and
world construction.