The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
- from Charles Hope’s email signature… I think I’ll just use this in everyday conversations. Should make me even more popular.
Lusiphur
on Feb 26th, 2006
@ 15:07 pm:
*blink*
I think I followed that .. need to look up the definition of Althusserian theory .. but I THINK I followed that ..
Fun conversations you must be having every day