Ideologies connect to subjects through contingent, breakable articulations rather than necessity
Evidence
It can be seen that, far from there being a homologous relationship between the material basis of practice, in capitalism, and how it appears , these now have to be thought, rigorously, as two related but systematically dislocated articulations of a capitalist social formation. They relate, but through their systematic differences—through a necessary series of transformations . The level of ideology, of consciousness, and of experiencing must be thought in terms of this decentering of material practice through ideological forms and relations. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
- Ideology and social force connect by articulation, never by necessity (similarity 0.87)
- Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them (similarity 0.87)
- Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions (similarity 0.85)
- Ideologies discover their subjects rather than subjects belonging inevitably to fixed ideologies. (similarity 0.83)
- Ideologies are material relations enacted through institutions and practices (similarity 0.83)
- Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness (similarity 0.81)
- Concepts like ideology and representation remain indispensable for understanding society (similarity 0.81)
- Ideology represents imaginary relations to real conditions of existence (similarity 0.81)
- Ideological elements carry no fixed political meaning by themselves (similarity 0.81)
- The theory of ideology must hold both relative autonomy and economic determination simultaneously. (similarity 0.80)
- Ideologies are false inflections of real relations, not falsehoods about them (similarity 0.80)
- Ideas can only be dissolved by overturning material social relations, not criticism. (similarity 0.80)
- Conflating means with base reduces ideology to its material substrate absurdly (similarity 0.80)
- Ideology expresses lived imaginary relations rather than actual conditions of existence. (similarity 0.80)
- Ideology expresses how people live their relation to conditions, not the relation itself. (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Articulation is a non-necessary linkage connecting ideology to social forces under specific conditions
#corroborates(0.95) - Ideology and material practice relate through systematic disjuncture, not correspondence
#qualifies(0.40) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 890