Definition
The subject who remains an agent while carrying conditions, costs, and judgements they did not author alone.
HAKKI TAN · REALITY PARADIGM · HT–03
Homovictimus
The subject who remains an agent while carrying conditions, costs, and judgements they did not author alone.
“Victimhood and agency are not mutually exclusive.”
CANONICAL DEFINITIONHT–03
What is Homovictimus?
Homovictimus is Hakkı Tan's concept for a subject who remains capable of action but must act within conditions they did not author and is later judged as though those conditions were freely chosen. It distinguishes tactical agency within an imposed field from constitutive power over the field itself.
Analytical question
How can a subject remain an agent while acting on terrain whose decisive conditions were authored elsewhere?
Conceptual boundary
Homovictimus is neither a passive victim nor a subject without responsibility. The concept distinguishes tactical agency inside a field from constitutive power over the field itself.
Place in the research programme
Homovictimus names the subjective position produced when pre-structured conditions are converted into the language of free, isolated acts and their consequences.
RELATED TERMS AND FORMS
HomovictimusHomo VictimusMetabolic Homovictimus
SUGGESTED CITATION
Tan, Hakkı. “Homovictimus.” Hakkitan.org — Hakkı Tan Research Archive, 2026. https://hakkitan.org/concepts/homovictimushttps://hakkitan.org/concepts/homovictimus