main aims of lecture
- sociological approaches of art + design
- marxist philosophy
- 'politics, a philosophy of action'
- 'ideas of the many'
- marxist approach to art and design
- marxist approach to mass media
IDEOLOGY - a system of ideas or beliefs that can often distort or give false consciousness.
- i.e. - RELIGION
- 'The kings position as appointed by God'
- supports the ruling class, and tricks the lower class into thinking the interests of the upper class is 'the interest of the many'
- Differences between men and women
- conditioned behaviour
Types of ideology,
- Law
- Advertising - capitalism
- Newspaper - supports ruling classes
- Religion - justifies Iraq war
- Education - the institution for the indoctrination of ideologies!
- = Maintain the status quo
'Meritocratic'
- work hard, get a job, marriage, kids, nice house in the suburbs = happy life
Althusser (1970) 'ideology and ideologic state apparatus'
Physical control Psychological control
Repressive (army, police etc) Ideologic (religion, education etc)
MARX base / superstructure.
Base
forces of production - materials, tools, workers, skills, etc.
relations of production - employer/employee, class, master/slave, etc
Superstructure
social institutions - legal, political, cultural
- dynamic relationship between base and superstructure
- all ideologies emerge as a response to the base
- this is materialism
- superstructure emerges from the base and in turn supports it
(gets quite complex here... additional discussion to the lecture)
- Thesis - social force
- antithesis - exact opposite
- works like a spiral - synthesis
eg - cold war, communism dead since 1989 - synthesis = capitalism since then
eg - punk music scene - synthesis = absorbed into normal society
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