This post is sparked by reading Douglas Campbell’s marvellous Pauline Dogmatics.
If asked to diagram social relations, very likely most of us would typically used a number of circles to represent individuals.
Each person is imagined as a self-contained ‘unit’, a discrete individual, separated off from other individuals by a social space.
This is a picture of the person as a self-sufficient person, with clear boundaries delineating them from other individuals. Others exist in their own spheres, perhaps bouncing off each other now and then, but essentially each of us are our own island.
Margaret Thatcher famously…
