Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica 2016, 17 (3): 129–137 Marzena Adamiak 1 Wherever One Wants to Go. Rosi Braidotti’s Concept of a ‘Nomadic Subject’ and Its Philosophical Possibilities Feminism is also the liberation of women’s ontological desire to be female subjects: to transcend the traditional vision of subjectivity as gender free, to inscribe the subject back into his corporal reality. Rosi Braidotti (2011: 272) he ideas embedded in Enlightenment concepts of subjectivity, understood as a coher- ent and rational identity, have established a universal perspective for a long time. Today, this outlook is being questioned by the experience of diference. he voices of minorities demanding acceptance and representation, both in social practice and in theory, have be- come more audible. But while theory allows for radical mental conclusions, the social and existential practices require positive theoretical solutions. A postmodern deconstructed subject does not constitute a suicient basis for social activity or political identiication. herefore, a signiicant challenge for the feminist theory today is to ind a form for the social subjectivity and, at the same time, avoid an oppressive and reductive category. Rosi Braidotti employed the Deleuzian igure of a nomad, and proposed a concept of a subject being resistant to postmodern fragmentation. She made a distinction between identity and subjectivity: identity is rooted in the unconscious, while subjectivity is conscious and a source of political resistance. he resistance is not due to stronger foundations, in com- parison to the Cartesian subject, but results from mobility and openness to the Other. At- tempting to construct a clearly positive conception of a subject, Braidotti proposes ‘a no- madic political project’. he question is: is it possible to put this idea into a social reality or do we have just another sophisticated theoretical concept? Key words: feminism, feminine subjectivity, nomadic subject 1 IFiS, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland; madamiak@iispan.waw.pl. This copy is for personal use only - distribution prohib - This copy is for personal use only - distribution prohibited. - This copy is for personal use only - distribution prohibited. - This copy is for personal use only - distribution prohibited. - This copy is for personal use