Jacob Lawrence, Struggle...From the History of the American
People No. 19. Thousands of American citizens have been torn from their country and from everything dear to
them: they have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation. —Madison, 1 June 1812 (1956)
Mark's Pages
Workbook: June, 2018
June 30, 2018: "I almost feel it was cheating on you..."
June 29, 2018: She's beautiful, but you're not attracted to her.
June 23, 2018: Althusser did not produce a systematic, fully coherent and elaborated system.
June 22, 2018: It's difficult to draw conclusions about Althusser's final works.
June 21, 2018: Lastly, "Aleatory Materialism" is a late Althusserian attempt...
June 20, 2018: "Materialism" now has a different meaning for Althusser than the traditional ones.
June 19, 2018: "Philosophy": finally, the "definitive formula":
June 18, 2018: In his final period, roughly 1977-87, Althusser produced a very radical reading of the absences...
June 17, 2018: I think, through these changes of emphasis Althusser was trying to understand...
June 16, 2018: "Philosophy" is considerably transformed in this period.
June 15, 2018: That something is the Ideological State Apparatuses...
June 14, 2018: Althusser now departs from inherited Marxist thinking not only about Ideology, but also the State.
June 13, 2018: "Interpellation" is how this happens.
June 12, 2018: "The Materiality of Ideology" is part of Althusser's reformulation.
June 11, 2018: "Ideology" in Marx is a product of consciousness, an idea he inherited from the Enlightenment.
June 10, 2018: From 1966-76 ish, Althusser self-critically re-examined these conclusions.
June 9, 2018: Althusser was a French Communist philosopher whose major works were published in the mid and late 1960s.
June 8, 2018: Less prominent but important for understanding Althusser's project is his critique of Structuralism as a neo-Hegelian ideology.
June 7, 2018: Althusser's relentless demotion of subjectivity and the subject is important...
June 6, 2018: Also contentious was Althusser's complementary slogan, "Marxism is not a historicism."
June 5, 2018: The results in 1965 were immediate and explosive.
June 4, 2018: Finally, "Theory" — capital-T — is the theory of practice in general...
June 3, 2018: A "Symptomatic Reading" constructs the problematics operating within a text, dragging them to visibility by demonstrating their effects.
June 2, 2018: "Determination in the Last Instance" is Althusser's non-reductive way of thinking the role that "the economy" plays in the complex articulation of social structures.
June 1, 2018: "Differential Historical Time" is your basic mouthful.
