Sir Real

3y

market anarchism is the funniest s*** ever

SEGA GOON

3y

She been had fixing done to her if you know what I mean. She had prime British teeth before that and so on

SEGA GOON

3y

The male to female ratio of the list was somewhere around 11/1, making Althusser studies worse in terms of gender equity than academic philosophy as a whole, and probably much worse than political philosophy as a sub-discipline. That Marxism, socialism, and the far left have their own gender problems presents confounding variables. But, having researched Althusser for over twenty years and having corresponded or visited with folks interested in Althusser from all over the world, I am only too aware that the Althusser-citing crowd overwhelmingly identifies as male. Further, more than one student has told me of graduate seminar debates regarding whether one should teach, read, or cite Althusser given his history. Clearly, we have evidence to suggest that the fact of Althusser killing his wife is generally off-putting, perhaps particularly to women, who might otherwise be interested in his thought.

In France, the obsession with Althusser’s biography and especially with psychoanalytic explanations of his behavior and ideas has largely occluded these ideas’ philosophical consideration. As a once prominent intellectual and Marxist, Althusser is not alone in this occlusion: lingering romantic obsessions with madness and genius as well as French anti-communism have overdetermined the production and reception of externalist work. The result is that Althusser has been reduced to a caricature: the mad Marxist philosopher whom history passed by and who remains only of pathological, nostalgic, or dramatic interest. The result of this is an industry–the Althusser industry–where plays, documentaries, and staged readings compete with texts of dream narratives and personal letters for notices in Le Monde littéraire. The most recent and perhaps most egregious in this regard was France Culture’s “La vie secrète des philosophes : Le procès Althusser” which dwelt almost wholly on murder and pathology and only tangentially on his importance as a philosopher.

Unlike Greece, Turkey, Japan, Germany, Italy, and much of North and South America where the level of scholarship on Althusser is fairly high (and everywhere mostly male), this obsession with the past has stunted Althusser studies within the country of his birth. In France, Althusser scholarship seems stuck in 1978 and the same texts: the ISA essay, For Marx, Reading Capital, and the published “Philosophy of the Encounter” texts are discussed ad nauseum. Too often these works are read sloppily, subjected to “immanent” or “psychoanalytic” critique or supplemented with inaccurate accounts of the theoretical, political, or biographical conjuncture that produced them. It is as if Althusser’s ideas were hermetically sealed on the eve of Mitterand’s election. There are exceptions to this quarantine, but these pieces and their authors are the exception and not the rule

TLDR: Althusser is for da fellas

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4336-but-didn-t-he-kill-his-wife

SEGA GOON

3y

@PhilipMorris

Her ex-husband organized a fundraiser for her elective cosmetic surgery and asked fans to pay for it disguising it as some sort of mental health issue

Womanpuncher69

3y

add me to the gender ratio of Althusser stannery

Sir Real

3y

what was supposed to happen on Monday if she didn’t get the money

SEGA GOON

3y

Mein Gott...pure Ideologie...

The INVISIBLE MARKET FORCES (GOOD) decide it ...

SEGA GOON

3y

Historically, there have been multiple civil protest movements because of coffee shortages. Mfers legit addicted

SEGA GOON

3y

The male to female ratio of the list was somewhere around 11/1, making Althusser studies worse in terms of gender equity than academic philosophy as a whole, and probably much worse than political philosophy as a sub-discipline. That Marxism, socialism, and the far left have their own gender problems presents confounding variables. But, having researched Althusser for over twenty years and having corresponded or visited with folks interested in Althusser from all over the world, I am only too aware that the Althusser-citing crowd overwhelmingly identifies as male. Further, more than one student has told me of graduate seminar debates regarding whether one should teach, read, or cite Althusser given his history. Clearly, we have evidence to suggest that the fact of Althusser killing his wife is generally off-putting, perhaps particularly to women, who might otherwise be interested in his thought.

In France, the obsession with Althusser’s biography and especially with psychoanalytic explanations of his behavior and ideas has largely occluded these ideas’ philosophical consideration. As a once prominent intellectual and Marxist, Althusser is not alone in this occlusion: lingering romantic obsessions with madness and genius as well as French anti-communism have overdetermined the production and reception of externalist work. The result is that Althusser has been reduced to a caricature: the mad Marxist philosopher whom history passed by and who remains only of pathological, nostalgic, or dramatic interest. The result of this is an industry–the Althusser industry–where plays, documentaries, and staged readings compete with texts of dream narratives and personal letters for notices in Le Monde littéraire. The most recent and perhaps most egregious in this regard was France Culture’s “La vie secrète des philosophes : Le procès Althusser” which dwelt almost wholly on murder and pathology and only tangentially on his importance as a philosopher.

Unlike Greece, Turkey, Japan, Germany, Italy, and much of North and South America where the level of scholarship on Althusser is fairly high (and everywhere mostly male), this obsession with the past has stunted Althusser studies within the country of his birth. In France, Althusser scholarship seems stuck in 1978 and the same texts: the ISA essay, For Marx, Reading Capital, and the published “Philosophy of the Encounter” texts are discussed ad nauseum. Too often these works are read sloppily, subjected to “immanent” or “psychoanalytic” critique or supplemented with inaccurate accounts of the theoretical, political, or biographical conjuncture that produced them. It is as if Althusser’s ideas were hermetically sealed on the eve of Mitterand’s election. There are exceptions to this quarantine, but these pieces and their authors are the exception and not the rule

TLDR: Althusser is for da fellas

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4336-but-didn-t-he-kill-his-wife

SEGA GOON

3y

BIG TOBACCO got hit with a 3 day mute for using the retärd word outside this thread.

Womanpuncher69

3y

we are being persecuted

SEGA GOON

3y

BIG TOBACCO got hit with a 3 day mute for using the retärd word outside this thread.

SEGA GOON

3y

BIG TOBACCO got hit with a 3 day mute for using the retärd word outside this thread.

krishna bound

3y

i refuse to believe there are people actually offended by this word. anyone pretending to be offended is literally just doing so because they feel its an imperative to do so rather than their actual feeling

SEGA GOON

3y

This Is Literally 1984