The individual and the collective: the politics of becoming for and with others

This paper explores twin aspects of Hans Asenbaum’s discussion in The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age. It first, and briefly, considers what democratic subjectivity connotes for Asenbaum. Here, it focuses on the relation between the production of democratic political subjectivity and democratic practices of self-constitution. Its main goal, however, is to examine Asenbaum’s understanding of disidentification and, in particular, the relation he envisages here between the individual and the collective. It asks whether disidentification might entail not a politics of becoming but a politics of becoming with others.