Ideology is actively made from cultural resources, not passively received from above
Evidence
Financialization does, indeed, serve an ideological function, in the expanded sense of the term mapped by Terry Eagleton (2007). Louis Althusser (2014) spoke of ideology as an imaginary relationship to the realities in which we live, a false cohesive worldview that covers over the inherently partial, fractured and contradictory nature of our consciousness. In this sense, ideology is not some passively received, generic, prepackaged simulacrum dispensed from on high and swiftly internalized. Rather, as Eagleton explains, ideology is an active creation whereby individuals and groups are constantly in the process of making sense of their world with the intellectual and cultural resources that they find at hand. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 59
Categorization
- XREF: This active-ideology framing of ideology (Eagleton/Althusser, not false consciousness) is exactly the theoretical bridge to deWaard’s cultural argument about finance colonizing imagination. — connects to: Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above.; Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology; Ideology is made from pre-existing ideological cultural resources, not freely invented. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 59 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Ideology is actively created by people, not passively received from above.
#corroborates(1.00) - Ideology is made from pre-existing ideological cultural resources, not freely invented.
#expands(0.85) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 59 - Ideology changes by reweighting old elements, not by imposition
#expands(0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 629 - Ideology is shaped within material institutions, not by class or economics.
#complicates(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 129 - Dominant culture operates as an active process of incorporation, not static ideology
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