ENGL 292 Lecture Notes - Panopticon, Semiotics, Bracketing
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Ideology has no history ; ideology has a material existence ; ideology interpolates individuals as subjects . Not only are we faced with misrepresentations in our daily lives, but we are also faced with misrepresentation in academic study. Marx: we need a critical theory for more than art and literature, but for our everyday experience. We need to investigate these misrepresentations, discover what they are, and why they exist. Marx s theory of ideology: mystification, inversion; there are 2 main principles: Description of the large view of how reality actually is: theory of base and superstructure. 662: relations of production constitute the economic structure of society morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology, no longer retains the semblance of independence. Life is not contained by consciousness, but consciousness by life. Theory of inversion: in all ideology, men in their circumstances appear upside- down. Not just looking at things through rose-coloured glasses, but with a completely ignorant perspective.
