Materialism
Critique of Althusser’s Theory of Ideology Part 1
Date: July 4, 2019Author: Paul Cockshott 1 Introduction Louis Althusser is a controversial figure: murderer, one time communist philosopher, massive guru to generations of cultural studies authors. His key paper on ideology[2] has, according to Google Scholar, been cited over thirteen thousand times1. He is clearly a very influential philosopher. But here is the paradox.
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Critique of Althusser : 2.1 Definition of ideology
Paul Cockshott July 6, 2019 Introduction This is the second part of my critique of Althusser’s theory of ideology. It is a bit more technical than the last since Althusser gives a very abstruse definition of ideology and it needs a fair bit of formal and pictorial analysis to pick it apart. What is the
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Materialism and delayed choice quantum eraser experiments
Date: July 25, 2018Author: Paul Cockshott I have been producing a series of videos explaining materialism. Most of these have been accepted without controversy, but predictably enough, the last one, which was on quantum phenomena and materialism raised a number of critical comments. The gist of my argument had been that the dominant Copenhagen interpretation
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Making sense of Quantum Mechanics with Jean Bricmont and P
This week, we start the episode with some inter-dimensional T.V. hosted by some characters from a different (cartoon) universe. The interview with this week’s guests starts at around 72 minutes. We talk with Jean Bricmont and P about the idealist misinterpretations of quantum mechanics over the years and how that has been aided by McCarthyism
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Leo He Zhao (Goods for the people), The future of China
Today we are joined by Leo He Zhao, founder of ‘Goods for the people’, a fashion cooperative with a focus on modern socialist values. We go into China, its history, and how that history has lead to the success of the country today. We also get into South African – modern dance music and how
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Historical materialism and the repudiation of subjectivism
Date: May 4, 2020Author: Paul Cockshott This is not a new post but a corrected transcript of a talk given by me, as one of the Worker’s Party of Scotland representatives to the Open Polemic Conference about 25 years ago. Open Polemic was a journal that was formed in the wake of the Soviet collapse
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