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beccaelizabethWe're done with Althusser, at least until I write the assignment. Thank goodness for that. It gets everso depressing, all that insistence that the matrix has you ideology just puts you in your place.
Hegemony is all about how actually ideology is a great big argument and never stops still. Which makes a much better model for fandom in oh so many ways. And explains why one has to have the same argument a whole lot about new texts - one side is trying to grab bits of ideological ground, and the other has to get stompy about it. And then there's compromise and accomodation and stuff, and that's how dominant ideas stay dominant. By looking like they're being reasonable and giving ground but keeping the important bits.
... or something like that, I've only read half the chapter.
ANYways
Result: Ideology is encountered only in the compromised forms it must take in order to provide some accomodation for opposing values.
Which is why whenever there's something in a text that lets one lot be 'grrr, arrgh!' there's something else where another lot can point at it and go 'yeah, but'.
Which sounds like neither side is wrong. But. If one side is going 'you're making women do all the mucky jobs!' and the other side is 'yeah but they're good at them'... well, that would be a *facepalm*. Getting medals for doing cleaning still leaves someone doing cleaning, you know?
... not that cleaners don't deserve medals. They are most necessary to continued function. Just they also deserve the chance not to be cleaners if they don't want to, and/or to get paid a decent wage for it, you know?
... okay, I'll wander off back to the sofa and finish the chapter.
The fun thing is, I really do find this stuff interesting. :-)
Sooooo on the right course, even if I have had quite enough of the working class.
Text for next lesson: Punk!
Must remember to put some music on my college account... And maybe get my hair redone...
Hegemony is all about how actually ideology is a great big argument and never stops still. Which makes a much better model for fandom in oh so many ways. And explains why one has to have the same argument a whole lot about new texts - one side is trying to grab bits of ideological ground, and the other has to get stompy about it. And then there's compromise and accomodation and stuff, and that's how dominant ideas stay dominant. By looking like they're being reasonable and giving ground but keeping the important bits.
... or something like that, I've only read half the chapter.
ANYways
Result: Ideology is encountered only in the compromised forms it must take in order to provide some accomodation for opposing values.
Which is why whenever there's something in a text that lets one lot be 'grrr, arrgh!' there's something else where another lot can point at it and go 'yeah, but'.
Which sounds like neither side is wrong. But. If one side is going 'you're making women do all the mucky jobs!' and the other side is 'yeah but they're good at them'... well, that would be a *facepalm*. Getting medals for doing cleaning still leaves someone doing cleaning, you know?
... not that cleaners don't deserve medals. They are most necessary to continued function. Just they also deserve the chance not to be cleaners if they don't want to, and/or to get paid a decent wage for it, you know?
... okay, I'll wander off back to the sofa and finish the chapter.
The fun thing is, I really do find this stuff interesting. :-)
Sooooo on the right course, even if I have had quite enough of the working class.
Text for next lesson: Punk!
Must remember to put some music on my college account... And maybe get my hair redone...