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给苏联建构主义的本体论解释，并批判地将这种解释与当代后人类哲学方法及其激进的跨学科抱负中阐述的结构和机构问题联系起来。布鲁诺·拉图尔的行动者网络理论（ANT）为从非结构的本体论特异性问题转向结构和机构问题奠定了基本的方法论基础。人类无法主观把握的对象，转向更务实和局部的能动性问题。这种能动性之所以成为后人类，是因为它不再与人类主体有实质性的联系，而是可以在一个积极产生的局部关系（网络）系统中涵盖任何对象（包括符号和非符号：从八卦到微生物）。但是，由于ANT是非常普遍的概念化-因此它的跨学科影响-它得到无休止地重新阐述取决于任何特定的流行话语的需要。因此，在某一点上，拉图尔自己将施动者概念化为准客体（Latour 2003），在另一点上将其概念化为事物（Latour 2005）。这在当代哲学和社会科学的跨学科领域造成了概念和方法上的混乱，妨碍了其具体的政治和社会信誉所需的理论统一，这就提出了一个问题，即是否有可能找到一种不同的历史阐述结构和机构问题的方法，这将有助于解决目前在ANT中概念和方法上的混乱。我把这一点放在苏联建构主义关于事物（vesch）及其与日常生活（拜特）的关系的概念中。然而，将苏联建构主义纳入后拉图尔哲学框架，需要对其历史遗产和自身内在的理论自我理解进行重新评估。因此，我的项目希望对当代哲学和艺术史领域进行两次相关的干预。