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The social world is fundamentally material. This materiality consists of much more than just matter or matter in motion. Material conditions, social relations, processes, practices, thought, discourse, associations, etc. are all material and can be subsumed under different modalities of materiality. The subject is constituted by and in material instances. It is the effect of conditions, relations, processes, and practices within these different materialities. A non-reductionist theory of the subject must acknowledge the materiality of the social.
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Jameson, F. (1991). Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late capitalism. London: Verso.
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Beetz, J. (2016). Conclusion. In: Materiality and Subject in Marxism, (Post-)Structuralism, and Material Semiotics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59837-0_7
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