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Louis Althusser FOR MARX

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1 Louis Althusser FOR MARX
How do you watch a play, and how does that relate to your position as a active spectator? Spectatorial consciousness: Enlist spectator for an active and living critique Estrangement model versus Identification model Techniques of decentering, not relating to hero, etc. Attack the invisibility of the ideological apparatus Mechanics of not knowing oneself Hegemonic spectator Consciousness is purely psychological Certain kinds of relations create certain kinds of art Production of a new consciousness in spectator Brecht- not a community of spectatorship Structural recognition of how to change the situation Method is for political ends (for whose politics?)

2 Louis Althusser IDEOLOGY AND THE STATE
Ideas are a product/reproduction of the means of production Ideological State Apparatus Religious, educational, family, legal, etc. We know about this normalizing system because we act (within) it The Church has been replaced by The School School as determining the working classes Repressive State Apparatus Individual versus subject- we are all subjects Interpolation of individuals Individual participates in the practices of the ideological apparatus Theory comes out of a set of practices

3 Walter Benjamin Aura: that which cannot be reproduced
Reproduction is what is killing art

4 Hannah Arendt

5 Techniques of the Body Individual participates in the practices of the ideological apparatus


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