All science necessarily functions as ideology because no thinker escapes subjective positioning
Evidence
Such “philosophical solutions,” which proceed, as we have said, by a differentiation of incompatible codes and models (and which I have tried to reformulate in the doctrine of levels in The Political Unconscious), of course, themselves still lie in the phenomenal world and are thus susceptible to transformation into ideological alibis: all science is also necessarily ideology at one and the same time, insofar as we cannot but take the position of the individual subject on what vainly attempted to stand beyond the perspectives of individual subjectivity. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 711
Categorization
- XREF: Jameson’s claim that science is necessarily ideology connects to the reader’s work on the diamond trade’s extralegal institutions and the standpoint critiques of objectivity in feminist theory. — connects to: Established science rationalizes the prevailing world without altering its existential structure. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 611