My book is a research monograph in political philosophy from a continental philosophical perspective. The book aims to think beyond the Habermasian paradigm of deliberative democracy to think about the concept of political subjectivity and the sovereign 'people' in new ways. Specifically, the book focuses on the emergent and unstable determination of 'the people and the ways in which unruly political speech is able to make 'the people' appear differently. But at the same time, the book investigates ways in which similar disruptive (and potentially emancipatory) processes are achieved not...