Outside, Inside, In Between: Rethinking the Socialist Subject
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20964751Keywords:
socialist modernity; environment; subject formation; governmentality; 4E cognitionAbstract
This review reads the special issue through the problem of the relationship between human beings and their environments. It proposes a three-part typology distinguishing between environments that shape behaviour from the outside, environments that become internalised through habit and discipline, and environments that are constitutive of cognition itself. By tracing these overlapping modes of subject formation, the essay highlights the broader conceptual contribution of the special issue to debates on socialist modernity, subjectivity, and the making of persons.
References
Kelly, C. (2014). St Petersburg: Shadows of the past. Yale University Press.
Newen, Albert, Shaun Gallagher, and Leon de Bruin (2018). 4E Cognition: Historical Roots, Key Concepts, and Central Issues. In The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition, edited by Albert Newen, Leon de Bruin, and Shaun Gallagher (pp. 3-16). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Winner, L. (1980). Do artifacts have politics? Daedalus, 109(1), 121-136.
Van Slyck, A. (2006). A manufactured wilderness: Summer camps and the shaping of American youth, 1890–1960. University of Minnesota Press.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 BALKANISTIC WORLDS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
