Louis Althusser

way power is exerted throughout the ritual at Kennedy Road Tabernacle in a Pentecostal church, demonstrating how those in power have control over the ones who are inferior or subordinate. Throughout this examination, I will use the theories of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to analyze the ways in which power is exerted within the members of this community. During my observations at our visit to the Pentecostal church, there was an unequal distribution of power between the men and women in labour

Ideas Prof. Marasco February 11, 2017 Take-Home Exam #1 In his essay “Lenin and Philosophy” Louis Althusser argued that in order for Capitalism to survive over time, it has to find the solution to the problem of reproduction. Based on the ideas that strengthen capitalist forms of production have to frequently adapt to the ideas from generation to generation of workers and their employers. For Althusser, education plays a huge part of this reproductive process because through the education system

chimney sweeper and the institution of chimney sweeping from Louis Althusser’s point of view. The little chimney sweeps in Songs of Innocence find comfort in certain ideas imposed by their master. They are leading a horribly miserable life but they don’t protest at their misery because they don’t have any knowledge of their own

can be decoded in various ways because of their frame of reference and background. However the subject of how audiences decode and view media including advertising can be seen in various different perspectives particularly with Karl Marx and Louis Althusser who have similar but different theories around audiences as passive and active parts of the decoding process. Through Stuart Hall also we can understand the different ways audiences can receive a advert. Sturken and Cartwright’s theory of audiences

Essay I: Of Althusser and ISAs Ideology is much like oxygen gas, invisible to the average human yet ever present in the world. According to philosopher Louis Althusser, ideology is “a ‘representation’ of the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence” (Norton 1498). Ideology is a means by which people attempt to comprehend themselves in relation to the reality they exist in. For example, in Christianity, people view themselves as placed into reality for the purpose

perspectives, a dominant male named Louis Althusser created the theory of Interpellation and the Role of ISAs and RSAs to help further understand movies. Althusser’s theory explains that people in power will remain in power and others will be controlled by those in power (Hartt-Fournier, Lecture 2). Furthermore, the role of ISA, known as the Ideological State

Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser, post-structuralist philosophers and intellectual theorists, have expanded the confines of the human subject (Pauker). Addressing it from opposite academic disciplines they deal with many similar topics however expressed in different ways. As each independently discusses the self awareness of the human subject, many ties can be formed between these two theorists, both arguing that a subject is misrecognized and constructed differently to the traditional Cartesian

to society (Raber, 2003, p. 47), if they would only break free of the “contradictory theoretical consciousness” and hegemonic norms that hold them back from doing so by suggesting that they should take no action (Bales & Engle, 2012, p. 22). Louis Althusser (2009), in particular felt that librarians had a “social and moral

emotional defense. What I want to do is pull two separate and different works together and focus on the impact of gender in media and film. First I will summarize my position then address the two selected works. One work is from noted Marxist Louis Althusser where he points out eight different Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) of which I will focus on two for this writing, the family ISA and the culture ISA. The second is from noted Canadian activist and trans-gender

The performances by Zachary, Ariana, and Denice are not just critical to the superstructures of society but are oppositional readings to the preferred labels put on the Latinx community. “Althusser argued that social relations create ideology as much as economic relations” (Brummet, 171). Louis Althusser, is