I have been playing around with how to represent visually the different ideas of the subject/self we have been discussing. Here is one possibility. There is the liberal self as independent, discrete, self-contained monad:
And then there is the idea of the self when it is pulled apart and becomes a loose assemblage of multiple singularities that opens out into the world and connects with millions of singularities in other selves:
The second image is Jackson Pollack’s Summertime Number 9A (1948), which hangs in the Tate Modern in London. I don’t know if you can see it in this image (you can click on it), but I see almost a second-line scene here–many figures–hard to discern but nevertheless perceptible–in various poses all marching and/or dancing toward the right of the screen, each intermingled with the others through lines of motion and emotion.
I’m not sure I’ve got the images quite right…what do you think?
Becoming Poor 
Wonderful visual representation of these two conceptions of the self! Kudos.
excellent. the first thing i thought of when i saw the dancing figures was this:
Here’s maybe a better idea for the first one, the latest Benetton ad:
