FICHTE, J.G.

Fichte: the I is not a substance but an act of self-positing; the world is what the I posits as its own limit. CoCA inverts only the agent: the Provisional Collective is not an I but a we, and it posits itself by issuing the Notice of Proprietary Dominion. The institution exists because it has declared itself to exist. The declaration is the founding act. Fichte without the romanticism. The minutes are kept.