The Socialist Being of a Thing: The Concepts of Object and Structure in Soviet Constructivism and Bruno Latour's Legacy

事物的社会主义存在：苏联建构主义中的物体和结构概念以及布鲁诺·拉图尔的遗产

• 批准号: 2909122
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kingston University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2909122
• 关键词: Socialist; Being; Thing; Concepts; Object

The main aim of my PhD project is to give an ontological interpretation of Soviet Constructivism and to critically connect this interpretation to the problem of structure and agency as it is elaborated within contemporary post-human philosophical approaches and their radical cross-disciplinary aspirations.Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has laid the basic methodological ground for a shift from the problem of the ontological specificity of non-human objects that cannot be subjectively grasped to the more pragmatic and local problem of agency. This agency becomes critically post-human because it is no longer substantively tied to a human subject but can encompass any object (both semiotic and non-semiotic alike: from a gossip to a microbe) within a system of actively produced local relationships (networks.) But because the ANT is conceptualized very generically - hence its transdisciplinary influence - it gets endlessly re-elaborated depending on the needs of any particular prevalent discourse. Thus, at one point Latour himself conceptualizes agents as quasi-objects (Latour 2003), at another as things (Latour 2005.) This creates conceptual and methodological confusion within the contemporary transdisciplinary field of philosophy and social sciences preventing the kind of theoretical unity required for its concrete political and social credibility.This raises the question of the possibility of finding a different historical elaboration of the problem of structure and agency which will help to resolve the current state of conceptual and methodological confusion in ANT. I locate this in the Soviet Constructivist concept of the thing (vesch') and its relationship to everyday life (byt.) However, to project Soviet Constructivism into the post-Latourean philosophical framework requires a re-evaluation of its historical legacy and own internal theoretical self-understanding. Thus, my project hopes to make two connected interventions into the fields of contemporary philosophy and art history.

我的博士项目的主要目的是对苏联建构主义进行本体论解释，并将这种解释与结构和机构问题批判性地联系起来，因为它是在当代后人类哲学方法及其激进的跨学科愿望中详细阐述的。布鲁诺·拉图尔行动者网络理论（ANT）为从无法主观把握的非人类对象的本体特殊性问题转向更加务实和局部的问题奠定了基本的方法论基础。 机构。这个机构变得至关重要的后人类，因为它不再与人类主体有实质性联系，而是可以在积极产生的本地关系（网络）系统中包含任何对象（符号学和非符号学的都一样：从八卦到微生物）。 ）但由于 ANT 的概念化非常笼统——因此它具有跨学科的影响力——它会根据任何特定流行话语的需要而不断地重新阐述。因此，拉图尔本人在某一时刻将主体概念化为准对象（Latour 2003），在另一时刻则将其概念化为事物（Latour 2005）。这在当代哲学和社会科学的跨学科领域中造成了概念和方法论上的混乱，阻碍了所需的理论统一。这就提出了一个问题，即是否有可能对结构和代理问题找到一种不同的历史阐述，这将有助于解决 ANT 中概念和方法论混乱的现状。我在苏联建构主义的事物概念（vesch'）及其与日常生活的关系（byt）中找到了这一点。然而，将苏联建构主义投射到后拉图尔哲学框架中需要重新评估其历史遗产和自身内部理论上的自我理解。因此，我的项目希望对当代哲学和艺术史领域进行两个相互关联的干预。