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Subject and Ideology

By Steen | July 12, 2007

Louis Althusser, in his essay “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” (which is available online here), argues for an interconnection between the subject and ideology. It is also here that he develops his basic argument for interpellation. The following is a brief discussion of this, but I’m not trying to be particularly innovative or say anything [...]

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Negotiating the Future

By Steen | May 26, 2007

For the Negotiating the Future seminar, I’m in the workshop entitled “What is the future? The end of the present, a monster or just a metaphor?” The following is an attempt to synthesize our thoughts a bit.
Both of your pieces deal with how the future can be conceptualized as different from the present – not [...]

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David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity

By Steen | June 7, 2006

A few notes from David Harvey’s excellent work The Condition of Postmodernity. In the following, I am mostly interested in his concept of time-space compression and the cultural and aesthetic responses to it.

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Pierre Bourdieu, The Field of Cultural Production

By Steen | May 5, 2006

In this book, Bourdieu focusses on how the field of cultural production has been established and how it connects to other fields, such as the fields of power and class. He shows how culture is a symbolic struggle for the primacy of specific works, as well as the naturalization of certain practices.

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Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

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A sequl to Empire, this book examines the “other side” of Empire; ie. the different groups and formations that resist Empire. Much of the book is a historical in addition to a philosophical investigation of these developments. The most useful aspect of their book, is the concept of the multitude, which allows for a broader [...]

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