Mitte-identifikatsiooniline poliitika ja poliitiline subjekt
Non-identificational politics and the political subject

Summary/Abstract: The present article proposes that it is necessary to re-evaluate the concept of the political subject. Traditionally, the political subject is thought on the basis of identification. The following, however, is based on three authors of what could be called critical theory: Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. They hold that in order for there to be emancipative politics at all, it must be grounded on nonidentification. These three thinkers are connected by the understanding that identity and identification processes are principal tools in the establishment of power relations and thus it is necessary to base emancipative politics on rupture and refusal. Identities are used to create social structure and government based on identities has as its goal the deployment, the putting into their rightful place, of individuals and bodies. Non-identificational politics, on the contrary, searches for away out of this kind of governmental structure by creating a different kind of political subject, or, by subjectivation. A new political community must be created that would be able to question or to put under doubt the established social order.

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