According to the modernistic project, the individual and society have been defined as natural and polarizing entities pre-existing their own interaction. From this perspective, with its implied dichotomizing logic, the collective is identified as the social. Drawing on the concepts of practice by Paul Veyne, of molar and molecular by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and of actor-network by Bruno Latour, Michael Callon and John Law, this article proposes a new concept of the collective, defined as a plane of co-engenderment of the individual and society.
collective; individual; society