The human participates in the anonymous and collective flow, hum, movement of the street, but is not subject in this errant and unrestricted space. Blanchot refers to this hum elsewhere as chatter [bavardage]:

I have always been struck by the widely enthusiastic endorsement of Heidegger when, under the pretext of analysis and with his characteristic sober forcefulness, he condemns inauthentic speech.  A scorned speech, which is never that of the resolute, laconic and heroic ‘I’, but the non-speech of the irresponsible ‘One’. One speaks. This means: no one speaks. This means: we live in a world where there is speech without a subject speaking it, a civilization of speakers without speech, aphasic chatterboxes, spokespeople who report and give no opinions, technicians without name and without power of decision.

This chatter, rather than being degraded or inauthentic as the German pronoun man is for Heidegger, points towards the unknowable future for Blanchot precisely because it belongs to no one. Michael Sheringham argues that the chatter of the street in Blanchot brings us closer to the ‘essence of the everyday’, which, ‘in its radicality, its immunity from all origins, its anarchic destruction of all established order, will always provide a basis for the future’.

Holly Langstaff, Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot