Subjection is overdetermined, neither purely political nor purely economic.
Evidence
One should be careful here, however, as Foucault and those he has influenced have emphasized, not to reduce all subject formation and subjection to the political, directly or indirectly to the state institutionally conceived. This is a position one might call politicism or statism in the face of economism. Subjection in both senses is at least multiply determined and most likely overdetermined, often (though pace Foucault also not completely) internalized. So social subjection (mostly) becomes self-regulating and self- directing. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1712
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces ‘politicism/statism’ as a named error to avoid in theorizing subject formation — a definitional guardrail for how the vault states subjection claims.
- QUESTION: Worth checking whether vault passages tend toward politicism when attributing racial subject formation to state action.
- XREF: connects to: Revolutionary conjunctures arise from overdetermination, not from a single economic cause.; The people is constituted politically, not given sociologically. — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 443; Politics is not a mechanical reflection of economic structure — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1447 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Politics is not a mechanical reflection of economic structure
#corroborates(0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1447 - Revolutionary conjunctures arise from overdetermination, not from a single economic cause.
#corroborates(0.92) - Power relations interlock with economics without being subordinate to it.
#corroborates(0.92) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 33 - The economic level is necessary but not sufficient to explain politics and ideology.
#corroborates(0.90) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621 - Economic structure constrains but does not determine political and ideological levels.
#corroborates(0.88) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 621 - Not every ideological shift directly mirrors the economic base.
#corroborates(0.88) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1447 - Ideologies are not what is shaped at power’s base
#corroborates(0.85) - The present is overdetermined yet fundamentally open to contingency
#corroborates(0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1196 - The people is constituted politically, not given sociologically.
#corroborates(0.78) — Ernesto Laclau, On Populist Reason, 443 - The economy is a constructed concept rather than a natural object.
#expands(0.75) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 538 - Ideology is shaped within material institutions, not by class or economics.
#qualifies(0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 129