One of the most prominent intellectuals in the contemporary world was named to the list of the “Top 100 Global Thinkers” in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012. He shares this distinction with the likes of Dick Cheney, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former Mossad director Meir Dagan. The theorist’s best idea—according to this well-known publication that is a virtual arm of the U.S. State Department—is that “the big revolution the left is waiting for will never come.”
I might just be dense but this passage means nothing to me :
The latter drew on Lacan’s mirror stage and conceptualization of the imaginary to create a misleading portrayal of ideology in his famous interpellation scene.[85] As Althusser asserted in a passage that contradicts his earlier analysis, an individual becomes an ideological subject when it recognizes itself as the one being hailed (interpellé) by a police officer in the street, meaning that the individual identifies with the image put forth by the other, assuming one’s place in the extant symbolic order.
How much can you decipher from this? (I don’t want to explain the few bits that I can work out (not the whole thing!) and come off as patronising if you’re making a joke about psychoanalysis and critical theory bring nonsense.)
I think they’re nonsense, and thought they were before I read this article. But my dislike of them had more of a “I just feel like I hate this thing” without really delving into it.
I might just be dense but this passage means nothing to me :
I laid an ideological subject in the toilet this morning.
that just shows the importance of getting enough fiber in your diet
How much can you decipher from this? (I don’t want to explain the few bits that I can work out (not the whole thing!) and come off as patronising if you’re making a joke about psychoanalysis and critical theory bring nonsense.)
I think they’re nonsense, and thought they were before I read this article. But my dislike of them had more of a “I just feel like I hate this thing” without really delving into it.
The passage doesn’t make sense to me.