CAS350H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Louis Althusser, Imagined Community, Menstruation
11 Dec 2017
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Don"t focus solely on top down power dynamics. People are not passive recipients of ideology. Account for the dynacism, the resistance, get away from the society tells us". Governmentality (foucault, taking us to the next theoretical level): disciplinary state and disciplinary discourses (class prejudices, neoliberal value, etc. ) Policy making and propaganda in which peasant workers are painted as problematic mass with low quality that need to be fixed. The population (mass of peasants) is turned into a homogenous mass that can be known. Can be made congeable and made known by discourses into an identifiable population". Suzhi -> interpellation -> on the body: menstruation, toenail fungus, breasts, penis, any of which can be sites on which knowledge and work, and get be interpellated on by ideology, the body is always-already interpellated by ideology. Despite this, they have many disadvantages: ideology works best when people recognize themselves in it.
