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Critical Historicity; an Alternative to Ideology?
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Hey everyone, I found myself in the rare position of having a little extra time and some prior research that felt particularly relevant to the current moment. Wait, which current moment you ask? Good question! The firehose of crises vomiting from the White House and far right governments across the world have produced no shortage of current moments of concern. In this regard, I’d like to speak directly to the Trump admins’ latest Orwellian attempt to whitewash US history by imposing their ideologies on the Smithsonian.
We're talking (briefly) about the Masters of Suspicion; Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche, and a little smattering of Foucault and Deleuze, as regards using critical theory to combat ideological thinking.
This is a short one I wanted to get out before heading to Dragoncon - If you'll be at Dragoncon, or in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend, hit me up through the comments section of whatever platform you're listening on, or through the PvW website, Patreon, or Discord!
Obligatory bibliography, or books (and articles) you may also want to check out:
Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus (Notes Towards an Investigation)”, in Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972
Deleuze, Gilles, Félix Guattari, Hugh Tomlinson, and Graham Burchell. What Is Philosophy? New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Foucault, Michel. “Human Nature: Justice Versus Power, Noam Chomsky debates with Michel Foucault 1971” Transcript,
Freud, Sigmund, James Strachey, and Peter Gay. 1989. “The Future of an Illusion”. New York: Norton.
Freud, Sigmund, “On Narcissism: an Introduction”, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. ed. and tr. James Strachey with Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb, and Angela Richards London: Hogarth Press, 1900. pp.73-102.
Marx, Karl, Friedrich Engels, and Robert C. Tucker. The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: Norton, 1978.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Thomas Common, Helen Zimmern, Horace Barnett Samuel, J. M. Kennedy, and Clifton Fadiman. The Philosophy of Nietzsche. New York: Modern library, 1954.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and R. J. Hollingdale. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books, 1979.
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