Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 09:42:39 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: PROBLEMATIZE THIS! VARIABLE CULTURAL CAPITAL


That's cool, no need for shame, the energy is, on the contrary, to be 
admired.  I think you did just address the Althusser quote, except for 
one possibility, so, if your interested it came from his ISA piece (in my 
edition, called _Essays in Ideology_ (Verso, 1984), p. 49.  What has 
intrigued me about this--just what I heard you saying, in fact--is that 
Althusser seems to argue both that there's no outside ideology (no "view 
>from nowhere"; and, I think, the contrary of what most people think when 
they think of his category of science), but there is a difference between 
the degrees of knowledge possible within it, with the key determining 
factor being self-consciousness (where saying, "I am in ideology", would 
involve or require an understanding of the objectivity of your thinking) 
which would then form a point of departure for the positive production of 
concepts.

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