Althusser: How Ideology Controls You Without Force (ISA Explained)
Louis Althusser argued that ideology doesn't just live in your head — it's built into institutions like schools, churches, and media. His theory of Ideological State Apparatuses explains how capitalist societies reproduce themselves not through violence, but through beliefs you don't even know you have.
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Topics covered:
• Repressive vs. Ideological State Apparatuses
• Interpellation: how ideology 'hails' you
• Why schools are the most important ISA
• Althusser's Marxism and structuralism
• The subject and ideology
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