[en] In the network society, the sovereign subject of classical education theory is revealed as a result of multi-layered forms of subjectivation. Networks, however, always also produce the experience of the constitutive limitations of communication. This article therefore proposes the systematic integration of the concept of incommunicability into the theory of media education. If we focus on the Other of connectivity that resonates in every networking operation, then a virtual, passive subject emerges, with contours that cannot be reduced to the evidence of its participation in the network.