The "linguistic tracing of subjects"

Lisa Robertson, in Nilling's "untitled essay": "We citizens constitute ourselves according to the movement of subjectivity in language. At the same time, we are administratively identified by shared, conventional borders, and a historical concept of collective and individual rights or those rights' withdrawal. This linguistic tracing of subjects fleetingly coheres in vernacular speech as that speech configures itself at any living juncture with another speaker."

Language is "the aptitude by which humans innovate one another as subjects"