We do not have to identify ourselves as 'we,' as a 'we.' Rather, we have to disidentify ourselves from every sort of “we” that would be the subject of its own representation, and we have to do this insofar as “we” co-appear. Anterior to all thought—and, in fact, the very condition of thinking—the “thought” of “us” is not a representational thought (not an idea, or notion, or concept). It is, instead, a praxis and an ethos: the staging of co-appearance, the staging which is co-appearing. We are always already there at each instant. This is not an innovation— but the stage must be reinvented; we must reinvent it each time, each time making our entrance anew.
Jean-Luc Nancy, Being Singular Plural
