A Dislocation without a Subject. Althusser, Laclau and Spinoza

Abstract

This article studies the relation between Laclau’s concept of dislocation and Althusser’s concept of structural causality, to demonstrate that the hegemonic articulation of identities cannot be ascribed to the operation of a subject, since it can only be sustained by a social force that can either block or mobilise processes of subjectivation.