On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 2:35 AM, David McInerney <vagabond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps the closest thing in Marxism to what Foucault suggests here
> with "experience" is Althusser's formulation (if I remember
> correctly, in the essay "Marxism and Humanism" reprinted in _For
> Marx_) that "ideology" constitutes a "lived relation" to our real
> conditions of existence, and, as such, constitutes the "subject" *as
> such*.
In terms of content, what Foucault and Althusser investigated
respectively in their best known works enriches our understanding of
what is called "social reproduction"* in Marxist literature. But I
wasn't speaking at the level of content. I was suggesting that words
that have transhistorical application, such as experience and
production, often obscure discontinuities in history.
Yoshie
> Perhaps the closest thing in Marxism to what Foucault suggests here
> with "experience" is Althusser's formulation (if I remember
> correctly, in the essay "Marxism and Humanism" reprinted in _For
> Marx_) that "ideology" constitutes a "lived relation" to our real
> conditions of existence, and, as such, constitutes the "subject" *as
> such*.
In terms of content, what Foucault and Althusser investigated
respectively in their best known works enriches our understanding of
what is called "social reproduction"* in Marxist literature. But I
wasn't speaking at the level of content. I was suggesting that words
that have transhistorical application, such as experience and
production, often obscure discontinuities in history.
Yoshie