Ideology operates through belief about what others believe
Evidence
The emphasis on direct action, though, conceals a despair about the possibility of indirect action. Yet it is via indirect action that the control of ideological narratives is achieved. Ideology isn’t about what you or I spontaneously believe, but about what we believe that the Other believes — and this belief is still determined to a large extent by the content of mainstream media. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1733
Categorization
- DEFINE: Lacanian reading of ideology as belief about the Other’s belief rather than one’s own — a load-bearing theoretical refinement.
- XREF: Recalls ch 41’s big Other as advanced alien observer; and ch 98’s corporate media isolating people to invalidate shared discontent. — connects to: Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819; Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833; Prejudiced rationalizations can be socially validated ideology rather than irrationality (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Ideology functions as signification that attains societal validity and justification
#expands(0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 819 - Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them
#corroborates(0.80) - Ideology is a material system of meaning, not merely false consciousness
#corroborates(0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628 - Prejudiced rationalizations can be socially validated ideology rather than irrationality
#exemplifies(0.75) - Ideology defines the self by stigmatising the Other
#contradicts(0.72) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 833 - Ideological labels function as identity markers more than coherent belief systems.
#complicates(0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 126 - Ideology appears as manifest surface while its real foundations are hidden
#expands(0.72) - A subtle terminological inversion reveals ideology’s work in interpretation.
#expands(0.70) — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1725