Introduction

When structuralism bursts on to the scene in the early twentieth century, there's an immediate shift in the way many thinkers view subjectivity. What it starts to look like is what you are. Every preference, every habit, every belief that you hold is merely an expression of rituals and structures of a culture that you happen to be occupying during your time here. The self doesn't shape the world. The world shapes the self as it goes now. These things feel like the totality of what it is to be me. I came into this universe knowing nothing about it, and slowly but surely, i'm figuring this universe out piece by piece.