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Survive: the terms subject, consciousness, belief actions. It therefore appears that the subject acts insofar as he is acted by the following system (set out in the order of its real determination): ideology existing in a material ideological apparatus, prescribing material practices governed by a material ritual, which practices exist in the material actions of a subject acting in all consciousness according to his belief. .

[. The effect of this spatial metaphor is to endow the base with an index of effectivity known by the famous terms: the determination in the last instance of what happens in the upper ‘floors’ (of the superstructure) by what happens in the economic base. • the cultural ISA (Literature, the Arts, sports, etc.). Having said this, let me move straight on and see what happens to the ‘individuals’ who live in ideology, i.e. ‘believe’ in God, Duty, Justice, etc. And I shall point out that these practices are governed by the rituals in which these practices are inscribed, within the material existence of an ideological apparatus, be it only a small part of that apparatus: a small mass in a small church, a funeral, a minor match at a sports’ club, a school day, a political party meeting, etc. […]. 2 0 obj It is this relation that contains the ’cause’ which has to explain the imaginary distortion of the ideological representation of the real world.

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An individual believes in God, or Duty, or Justice, etc. That’s true!’ [.

Like every metaphor, this metaphor suggests something, makes something visible. endobj

We commonly call rehgious ideology, ethical ideology, legal ideology, poli1ical ideology, CIC., SO many "world outlooks." | In order to grasp what follows, it is essential to realize that both he who is writing these lines and the reader who reads them are themselves subjects, and I therefore ideological subjects (a tautological proposition), i.e. is the constitutive category of all ideology, whatever I its determination (regional or class) and whatever its historical date – since I ideology has no history. [. .]. And I am not going beyond it in order to reject it as outworn. I say: the category of the subject is constitutive of all ideology, but at the same time and immediately I add that the category of the subject is only constitutive % of all ideology insofar as all ideology has the function (which defines it) of 1 ‘constituting’ concrete individuals as subjects. What distinguishes the ISAs from the (Repressive) State Apparatus is the following basic difference: the Repressive State Apparatus functions ‘by violence’, whereas the Ideological State Apparatuses function ‘by ideology”.

This existence is material. Thus the object of the metaphor of the edifice is to represent above all the ‘determination in the last instance’ by the economic base. With all the reservations implied by this requirement, we can for the moment regard the following institutions as Ideological State Apparatuses (the order in which I have listed them has no particular significance): • the religious ISA (the system of the different Churches). If this is the case, the question of the ’cause’ of the imaginary distortion of the real relations in ideology disappears and must be replaced by a different question: why is the representation given to individuals of their (individual) relation to the social relations which govern their conditions of existence and their collective and individual life necessarily an imaginary relation?

1 Louis Althusser 1970 “Lenin and Philosophy” and Other Essays Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation) First published: in La Pensée, 1970; Translated: from the French by Ben Brewster; I have said that the ISAs must not be confused with the (Repressive) State Apparatus. That the author, insofar as he writes the lines of a discourse which claims to be scientific, is completely absent as a ‘subject’ from ‘his’ scientific discourse (for all scientific discourse is by definition a subject-less discourse, there is no ‘Subject of science’ except in an ideology of science) is a different question which I shall leave on one side for the moment.

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He wrote ideology and ideological state apparatuses in French which was published in 1970. In this essay, Althusser tells how the conditions of means of production and productive forces are reproduced and maintained in society. . Or rather, to leave aside the language of causality it is necessary to advance the thesis that it is the imaginary nature of this relation which underlies all the imaginary distortion that we can observe (if we do not live in its truth) in all ideology. These include the second edition of Gregory Elliotts standard study, important books by Warren Montag and Mikko Lahtinen, the lengthy collection titled Encounterin… %PDF-1.7
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[. Churches, Parties, Trade Unions, families, some schools, most newspapers, cultural ventures, etc., etc., are private. ]. Still from They Live (1988), directed by … .]. [. <> As St Paul admirably put it, it is in the ‘Logos’, meaning in ideology, that we ‘live, move and have our being’.

Goshgarian. I am not perhaps speaking about exactly what you want or would like to say, but about what you actually do say. The first concerns the object which is ‘represented’ in the imaginary form of ideology, the second concerns the materiality of ideology. ], The individual in question behaves in such and such a way, adopts such and such a practical attitude, and, what is more, participates in certain regular practices which are those of the ideological apparatus on which ‘depend’ the ideas which he has in all consciousness freely chosen as a subject. Precisely this: that the upper floors could not ‘stay up’ (in the air) alone, if they did not rest precisely on their base. – being assured by their subjection to the ruling ideology). ], This last comment puts us in a position to understand that the Ideological State Apparatuses may be not only the stake, but also the site of class struggle, and often of bitter forms of class struggle. . I shall say that this imaginary relation is itself endowed with a material existence.

their real world. . In recent years, a revival of interest in his work has taken place.

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