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Two Strange Bedfellows – Of Ideology and Power in Althusser and Foucault

Pablo Francisco Pérez Navarro perez.p@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: In the contemporary cultural and philosophical context, there is a downright devaluation of the notion of ideology, after the abuse carried out by the popularization of the Marxist theory during the sixties and seventies. This paper considers the importance of maintaining alive a certain notion […]

In The House of Libya: A Meditation

Valentin Y. Mudimbe vmudimbe@duke.edu Duke University, Durham, USA Abstract: From Greek myths, Libya, in its symbolic dimensions, may be one of the less recognized in contemporary imagination. Yet, without narratives on Libya, it would be difficult to induce a number of lessons from which some of the worst predicaments have come to be regulated. For […]

Notes on ideology. Between power, truth and symbolic violence

Mariano Di Pasquale mariano.dipasquale@gmail.com Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Argentina Abstract: This paper aims to analyze a series of reflections around the phenomenon of ideology as an analytical tool. To do this, some central components in Teun van Dijk’s model will be analyzed so that the link between ideology and power is highlighted. Slavoj […]

The device: a grid of analysis for visibilizing subjectivities

Jorge Eliécer Martínez Posada, Universidad de la Salle, Colombia