Defining Ideology, Part 2In this article, I will first reiterate some of the lessons learned from Louis Althusser, which I outlined at greater length in Part 1. I will then explain how his focus on material conditions has certain advantages over the purely discursive analysis of Michel Foucault that…
Defining Ideology, Part 1‘Ideology’ is one of those words that can have an expansive or narrow definition and, as such, it is generally abused. I wish to write an article in which I define it more tightly for the purposes of serious political analysis. The loose, wide definition is something like ‘a set…
On Gen X Defending Boomers Against ZoomersAs I wait for The Prophets of Doom to come out, my thoughts have started to turn to the final book in the trilogy that started with The Populist Delusion: namely, The Boomer Truth Regime. This is still very much in early gestation, and I am not yet clear which direction it will…
The Forbidden Texts
The Forbidden Texts
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The Forbidden Texts
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