Friday, March 14, 2014

The Indispensable Althusser



Why "scientific" history matters: it teaches us the difference between the nature of our actual condition in the world and the ideological appropriation of it by superstructural apparatuses. Such information is available to us (if it is available at all) only in retrospect. Consequently, we cannot abandon the baseline of historical evidence: it is our only palpable connection to lived reality as such.

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