At around 4min this lecturer (Ron Strickland) talks in detail about Louis Althusser and this idea of interpellation (in response to Anna's post). It was just a simple Youtube search, but I thought I'd put it up anyway for anyone interested.
Cultural Theory: Althusser's Concept of Ideology
Excellent - Ranciere (who I referred to yesterday) was a student of Althusser and derived a lot of useful information from him. I commented here in response to Cain's post but thought I'd copy it in here too - perhaps you can point it out to the others as I'm not sure if the email is sent to everyone or just to you!
ReplyDeleteAnother thought on intervention - which I thought might be useful. I referred to it briefly in class yesterday but I thought it was worth putting it in a post. Thinking about interventions following Rancière as the disruption of forms of domination through innovative actions, which he calls the ’partition of the sensible’. Here is a useful quotation from his book entitled "Dissensus": "‘Politics can be defined as the activity that breaks with the order of the police by inventing new subjects. Politics invents new forms of collective enunciation; it re-frames the given by inventing new ways of making sense of the sensible, new configurations between the visible and the invisible, and between the audible and the inaudible, new distributions of space and time – in short, new bodily capacities."