Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Structural Marxism, Link Building, Canadian Identity

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G
• Professor: Sasha Torres

Document Summary

Ideology surrounds us like an atmosphere, like the water in our fishbowl. Ideology is a set of assumptions that permeate most of what we do and that can be hard to identify. Cant get out of ideology but we can learn to see it better and theories of ideology are about giving us the tools to see ideology more easily. Ideology is a topic marxist thinkers have been debating for 150-160 years. His father wanted him to study law but he increasingly felt pulled towards philosophy. The ruling class and the ruling ideas. The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas; i. e the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. Mit 2200: antagonism between people who own means or production and the people who don"t is for.