illusio

Bourdieu's illusio is not positively determined; it is merely an illusion, a placeholder at the very center of the cultural field.

Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008

Bourdieu calls it 'illusio', the rules of the game.

Are all typographers pretentious? Jonathan 2007

The idea that we should all aspire to aesthetic perfection is what sociologists call an 'illusio', a 'truth' that is created to support the interests of the people who preach it.

Archive 2005-02-01 Jonathan 2005

The idea that we should all aspire to aesthetic perfection is what sociologists call an 'illusio', a 'truth' that is created to support the interests of the people who preach it.

The pursuit of style: Man stabbed in Ikea opening chaos Jonathan 2005

For Bourdieu, "absolute judgement" is the illusio, "the interest, the investment" (Field 159) that compels each agent to continually take up a position within the cultural field: to judge absolutely, without contestation, is not to come to terms with other agents but to dominate, as the antagonisms forged in the field of positions (by class struggle, for example) are reproduced in the field of position-takings.

Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008

As the illusio, as illusion, absolute judgment is ultimately unattainable, elusive, and thus struggle is perpetuated: if there is

Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008

Nobody stops to look at our work and marvels at the beautiful typography - only other designers do that, people who share the illusio.

Archive 2005-02-01 Jonathan 2005

Nobody stops to look at our work and marvels at the beautiful typography - only other designers do that, people who share the illusio.

The pursuit of style: Man stabbed in Ikea opening chaos Jonathan 2005

When you reduce politics to a level of superficial perception, you leave yourself vulnerable to the deceptive arts of the illusio nist.

Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

But 'twas pleasanter, when the other saint _Resist-the-devil - and-he-will-flee-from-thee Pure-man_ was overtaken in the act, to plead an illusio visûs, and maintain his sanctity upon a supposed power in the adversary to counterfeit the shapes of things.

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804