Tag Archives: Politics

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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Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

By Steen | June 11, 2007

 
The masses are not a population, a society, but the multitude of passers-by. The revolutionary contingent attains its deal form not in the place of production, but in the street, where for a moment it stops being a cog in the technical machine and itself becomes a motor (machine of attack), in other words [...]

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Martin Campbell, Casino Royale

By Steen | November 29, 2006

The new Bond film is great. It really is more a reinvention/revigoration of the novel than the 21st film in the franchise. While Daniel Craig isn’t perfect as Bond, he is definitely the best match for the specific type this film is, since Sean Connery, and since this film is closer to the novels, Craig [...]

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Gus Van Sant, Elephant

By Steen | August 8, 2005

A film which takes its cue from the various high school shootings in the US, but unlike documentaries like Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine there is no direct indictment of anyone or anything other than the culture in general. The film has no intentions of answering any questions or investigating what went wrong in the [...]

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John Junkerman & Noam Chomsky, Power and Terror

By Steen | August 18, 2004

This documentary presents Noam Chomsky at three different lectures, as well as one interview. There has also been added a second interview after the credits, about the Iraq war. The film as film is nothing particular, nothing has been done to enhance or hinder anything. It is primarily a camera directed at Chomsky and little [...]

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