tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post604670737735210821..comments2023-12-29T18:13:21.495-06:00Comments on pink scare: Althusser on IdeologyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-75541254996115864492009-02-09T17:50:00.000-06:002009-02-09T17:50:00.000-06:00btw.... that Cindy Sherman photograph that pans ac...btw.... <BR/><BR/>that Cindy Sherman photograph that pans accross the screen at the end of the video is at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago right now..... woot!thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-4739304524460902492009-02-09T17:48:00.000-06:002009-02-09T17:48:00.000-06:00interesting, Althusser does try to account for the...interesting, Althusser does try to account for the issue you raise. He says that there are never either purely Repressive or purely Ideological state apparatuses... in concrete terms they are always some combination of the two. And he also wants to say about RSA's that they function by administrative repression, for example, which seems to suggest that there is room here for non-physical forms of outright repression. I think some of the examples you noted should definitely qualify as violent, particularly the threat of starvation/penury, etc. <BR/><BR/>Its also worth noting here that gender seems to be an institution that functions in just this way (i.e. with both violence and ideology)... consider what would have happens to people who openly transgress gender norms in terms of violent assaults, etc... if that is not the violent maintenance of certain prescribed social norms then I dont know what is. <BR/><BR/>Judith Butler gives an interesting example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLnv322X4tYthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-74112049813865009482009-02-08T11:30:00.000-06:002009-02-08T11:30:00.000-06:00Very helpful post.Just thinking ahead a little, I'...Very helpful post.<BR/><BR/>Just thinking ahead a little, I'm wondering if these repressive apparatuses couldn't include the threat of poverty or even something like social condemnation/isolation, in addition to what we think of as violent force...<BR/><BR/>It seems so often the answer to someone's bad social position is something like "well he/she could fix it if he/she really wanted to." As if as long as no one is holding a gun to a person's head they still have "choice." I think this imminent-violence-as-only-excuse-for-not-acting-as-free-agent idea is part of the status-quo explanation ideology, so I'm interested to see if Althusser addresses it in his very construction of the theory of ideological state apparatuses.Arvillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02966511261153415467noreply@blogger.com