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  • This is the result of what Neo-Marxist scholar Althusser calls Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) which bureaucratizes the propagation of an ideology to the point that people are oppressed but do not feel it, as if nothing is wrong, and tend to accept that it's all God-given.

    WN.com - Articles related to Gov't advised not to sell oil power plants yet 2010

  • Leftist political thinkers, including the French philosopher Louis Althusser, refer to these institutions as "Ideological State Apparatuses" responsible for the orderly production of docile subjects in the image of the master Subject of ideology, a secularized figure of God.

    TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog Michael Marder <telosscope@telospress.com> 2010

  • People in power tend to put preserving that power at the top of their priority list, whether they admit it or not (see Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses).

    Ask MetaFilter radiosilents 2010

  • Metaphysics = "A Critical Metaphysics Could Come About as a Science of Apparatuses", online version from the tiqqunista site.

    Sketchy Thoughts 2010

  • -- Apparatuses in architecture: a close reading of two 1920s works by Adolf Behne, a German architecture and art critic.

    girlwonder molly wright steenson 2010

  • Apparatuses (ISA) which bureaucratizes the propagation of an ideology to the point that people are oppressed but do not feel it, as if nothing is wrong, and tend to accept that it's all

    WN.com - Articles related to Gov't advised not to sell oil power plants yet 2010

  • All the more so, because it is the retreat of the Repressive State Apparatuses that will provide the space to engage in the realm of ideology and to challenge the Ideological State Apparatuses.

    Kafila 2009

  • Breaking that reinforcing dynamic would entail a commitment to demilitarization and to push for the retreat of the Repressive State Apparatuses.

    Kafila 2009

  • Following from this, I claim that in addition to the historical decimation of progressive politics in Sri Lanka, it is the Repressive State Apparatuses coming to the fore with the war, that has paralyzed challenges to the dominant ideologies of the nationalisms.

    Kafila 2009

  • If I can borrow from Althusser's 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses', the situation has deteriorated to an extent where the Repressive State Apparatuses have come to the fore, reducing the possibilities for contestations with the Ideological State Apparatuses.

    Kafila 2009

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