Ideologies are not what is shaped at power’s base

Evidence

But I do not think that it is ideologies that are shaped at the base, at the point where the networks of power culminate. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 1205

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Contrasts ideological critique with power-knowledge instrument analysis.

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• The concept of ideology was born torn between historical relativism and universal truth. (similarity 0.82)
• Ideology can be reconceived as a terrain of struggle, drawing on Gramsci and Laclau. (similarity 0.81)
• Ideology is made from pre-existing ideological cultural resources, not freely invented. (similarity 0.80)
• Nietzsche reduced all ideology to a power struggle between illusions (similarity 0.80)
• Ideological forms are where people become conscious of material conflicts and fight them out. (similarity 0.80)
• The pejorative sense of ideology arises from a three-step logical slide (similarity 0.80)
• Ideologies are crafted as political weapons, not theories (similarity 0.79)
• Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.79)
• The reality principle is itself the highest form of ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Ideological change happens through class struggle, not through ideas alone (similarity 0.79)
• Ideology is actively made from cultural resources, not passively received from above (similarity 0.78)
• The term ‘ideology’ conflates necessary superstructure with arbitrary individual fancies (similarity 0.78)
• Foucault’s power theory cannot assess changing balance of forces without ideology (similarity 0.78)
• Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.78)