This thesis gives an ontological interpretation of Soviet Constructivism and critically connects 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 has laid the basic methodological ground for a shift from the problem of the ontological specificity of non-human objects to the more pragmatic and local problem of agency. Yet, Latour's agents sometimes become quasi-objects, sometimes - things; a sign of confusion within the contemporary transdisciplinary field of philosophy which prevents the kind of theoretical unity required for its concrete socio-political credibility. This raises the question of the possibility of finding a different historical elaboration of a similar problem: 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.
Originally from Nakhodka, Russia, I completed a BA in Humanities, Society & Culture at the Anglo-American University, Prague. I then received an MA in Philosophy & Contemporary Critical Theory (working on Henri Lefebvre's Production of Space and the Soviet Avant-garde) at the CRMEP before starting a PhD at the same place.