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SUBJECT, contracts. The thing which is the object of an agreement. This term is used in the laws of Scotland. SUBJECT, persons, government. An individual member of a nation, who is
subject to the laws; this term is used in contradistinction to citizen,
which is applied to the same individual when considering his political
rights.
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Farocki is fascinated by the affectless, even subjectless, operations of information-processing and data-matching: Often, in the world of Eye/Machine, no one seems to be home or, indeed, in the workplace. This trait, she said, accounted for the odd subjectless syntax of Bush's acceptance speech at the 1988 convention ("moved to Texas, raised a family," and so on). His habit was to delete the first person pronoun, giving rise to those choppy, subjectless sentences so beloved by comedians. |
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