New Subjectness in the Conditions of Sociotechnical Space

• Nikolaeva Evgeniya Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0150-1611
• Kamaleeva Aisylu Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University. Russia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3284-3358
• Nikolaev Mikhail Kazan Federal State University, Russian Federation. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7200-7488

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46925//rdluz.41.33

Keywords: Ontology, artificial intelligence, epistemology, cognition, new subjectness, consciousness, subject, object, Actor-Network Theory

Abstract

The paper investigates the emergence of the phenomenon of new subjectness that arises from the integration of artificial and natural fields in contemporary socio-technical reality. It aims to challenge the subject-object dichotomy established by Modern philosophy tradition. To support this goal, the paper draws on the philosophical views of the proponents of Object-Oriented Ontology (Manuel DeLanda, Graham Harman) and Actor-Network theory (Bruno Latour, John Law). These contemporary philosophers substantiate the idea of distributed hybrid subjectness as the result of multiple network interactions, which can be interpreted using John Law's "method assemblage". This method disregards the attitudes of classical metaphysics and leads to the conclusion that new subjectivity arises from chaotic reality and manifests through the continuous formation and reformation of "bundles of relations". In those relations, it is impossible to differentiate between subject and object, as these roles roles are mobile and volatile.

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