The Annual Review of Sociology
Online ISSN : 1884-0086
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“Materiality” and its effacement
Ideology and the constitution of evidentness
Takashi SAKAI
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1996 Volume 1996 Issue 9 Pages 163-174

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For Althusser and Pêcheux, the ideology is a mechanism necessary to construction the social relations: it constructs the subjects through “interpellation”. And they argued that a sublect have performatively been produced in diverse ideological rituals. So, ideology is in nature “materiar” (not inner belief). Paradoxically this mechanism effaces, by the same token, its materiality (rituality, exteriority). Thus all activities, including langage, are experien oed as effects or expressions of the subject's interiority. By way of this mechanism of producing “evidence”, the reproduction of society is guaranteed. But the notion of ideology elaborated by Althusser and Pechêux is static. They had never been able to explain the break of reproduction. Why? This paper will give some clues to answer this question.
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