In this episode, we analyze Luis Althusser’s magnum opus, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. We give biographical and philosophical context to Althusser’s text and summarize his important contributions to the study of ideology. Later in the podcast, we show you how to use to analyze social institutions and cinema through Althusser’s theory of ideology and give our own critiques of his theory.  

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Links:

Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970) By Louis Althusser 
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm

The Intro/ Outro Music is Wave Shaper by Fabulizer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4rguCBGPP0&list=PLyj2obV3lBeZu0IMkrvx8rKBxLWZWd-PZ&index=2&t=5s

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