Social subjectivity in the structures of articulation

Social subjectivity is presented in the structures of articulation between the written (articulated) and unwritten (not articulated) rules of communication. "Here and now" produced communication (articulation) detects the social in the discursive order, marks and objectifies the meanings of written rules of communication. Bringing communication (articulation) to the limit, unwritten rules of a society (community) are detected which manifest themselves at the time of their violation. This means that at the limit of communication society is at a "zero" state of social subjectivity. The presence of the articulated phatic "zero" communication, which has the function of establishing a contact, confirms the essential need of society in communication. This means that the communicants in the phatic communication (already) understand each other, because they live in the same broad cultural context. Thus, this communication reveals a deeper level of contextuality or understanding / connectivity, the presence of the hermeneutic circle. The unwritten rules as understanding and contextuality, therefore, (already) exist in all communications as a given which is generally accepted and thus confirms the reality of communication. Thus, the objectification of social subjectivity is its discursive self-determination in the structures of articulation where it, on the one hand, becomes something that determines, the subject of the discourse of communication articulated "here and now" by the written rules of communication. On the other hand, it is the fact that is determined, the object of discourse according to unwritten rules. Accordingly, there is a possibility of its identification through self-reflection (articulated), and possibility of self-determination through the objective (not articulated) structures of unwritten rules. We suppose that the definition of social subjectivity makes sense only when it is understood in terms of subject-object identity, in which social subjectivity self-determines through self-relation of existence to social reality and is the point of the meaningful co-existence, i.e. a social position that exists in the space of social reality. The process of objectification of social subjectivity is presented as its self-manifestation in motion on the surface of social reality, on the one hand. The process is also presented as violations of unwritten rules as if it draws a line of its borders, on the other hand. Thus, it self-presents while showing the structure of the social space, which self-aligns as an immanent surface of self-construction of social subjectivity. Meanings of social discourse define themselves through the point of its self-representation in communication articulated "here and now".

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