Gramsci

admin March 10th, 2009

As noted to the right, the title for this blog comes from the work of Antonio Gramsci, a critical influence on my thinking.

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  1. # mediaon 28 Mar 2009 at 3:33 pm

    the hegemony idea appears similar to marxian false consciousness, and you mention ‘manufacutre of consent’ (chomsky, lippman). obviously the current anarchist milieu along with similar diy, znet and green things, most of which were preceded by similar things in the 60′s (communes, coops etc.) does try to buid new in the shell of the old.

    i guess i am just surprised these sorts of ideas are considered new. (i read uri gordon’s thesis and was surprised you get a PhD from oxford on that basis, but i guess alot of poli sci is not exactly much deeper than an acceptable wikipedia article).

    i will say that current anarchist type things tend sometimes towards marginality, so they reinforce hegemony in fact. or in terms of anarchy mag’s ‘manifesto’ they are false opposition, or ‘posing’ (fake black bloc rebels who will show up in 10 years like Bill Ayers of the weathermen or Fischer of the German greens—as total members of the establishment who essentially preserve it). even chomsky says his dissent is an example of manufacturing consent to a false democracy.

  2. # Bimal Dahalon 28 Mar 2010 at 8:53 am

    Thank you.
    It is short and complete to articulate basic idea.

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