The subject beyond the norms. The question nowadays is less « who I am » than « who are we », and « what shall we do? ». The dominating answer is from Foucault: subjects are inherent to a process of subjectivation in the context of the confrontation with norms. This paper sticks to foucaldian best definition of the norm as a « mixt of nature and legacy », and tries to show that this definition resists to the idea of a immanent and living process of production involving subjects and norms. Then norms are nothing without the other dimensions which concern the subject even if Foucault tries later to reduce them: the necessity of nature, the external course of technique, the legacy as ground (without ground) of normativity, the ethical appeal coming from the other. Modern subjects are confronting themselves to these non-subjective and irreductible dimensions that are leading them beyond the norms, disrupting in singular ways any process of subjectivation.
Keywords: immanence, subjectivity, norms, Foucault, sovereignty.
