Any text’s ideological conditions of production are always several, never singular

Evidence

I point out these obvious determinations of Jameson’s text for three reasons. One is to strengthen my proposition that the ideological conditions of a text’s production are never singular but always several. Second, even if I were to accept Jameson’s division of the globe into three worlds, I would still have to insist, as my references not only to feminism and Black Literature bur to Jameson’s own location would indicate, that there is right here, within the belly of the First World’s global postmodernism, a veritable Third World, perhaps two or three of them. Third, I want to insist that within the unity that has been bestowed upon our globe by the irreconcilable struggle between capital and labour, there are more and more texts which cannot easily be placed within this or that world. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 480

Categorization

• XREF: Ahmad’s insistence that ideological determination is plural and irreducible to a single world-position directly serves the reader’s research question: it undercuts the discrete ‘world’ taxonomy on which a strategic-essentialist identity could be cleanly held. — connects to: A single intellectual text is multiply determined across origin, ideology, and place of filiation. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 474; Any complex text is multiply determined across ideological worlds, not just one — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 205; Dominant-group ideology is never uncontested and always faces internal and external challenges — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3386 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Any complex text is multiply determined across ideological worlds, not just one #corroborates (0.95) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 205
• Intellectual production is always positioned within class struggle #corroborates (0.85)
• Ideology operates through language itself, not merely through false beliefs #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 698
• Dominant-group ideology is never uncontested and always faces internal and external challenges #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3386
• Connotation in postmodern culture is always plural and simultaneous, not layered on pure signs. #exemplifies (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 231
• A tradition of prior texts authorizes any individual Orientalist claim #exemplifies (0.70)