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There are many formulations of ideology. What models or what combination of models provides a more productive and satisfactory understanding of ancient culture? We plan to investigate this problem at the conference. Some general (and by no means complete) points for departure include:
traditional Marxist formulations
deconstruction and gender performance (Judith Butler)Bourdieu's sociology (see an essay by J.L. Lemke on An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology) and the possibility of a postmodern self (Bourdieu and the Status of the Postmodern Self by Jeff Honnold)
Ernst Bloch's ideology critique
Guy Debord's provocative remarks on ideology in The Society of the Spectacle.
Clifford Geertz's Ideology as a Cultural System
Political Action and the Unconscious: Arendt and Lacan on Decentering the Subject by Frederick Dolan
"Ideology, Discourse, and Cultural Studies: The Contribution of Michel Pêcheux" by Martin Montgomery
Zizek and postmodern elaborations of ideology (see James S. Hurley's review of The Plague of Fantasies)
ideology as "practiced" in the field of Classics (see Peter Rose's article on ideology in the Iliad)
A wealth of additional links and information can be found on Sarah Zupko's Cultural Studies Center.
Check out k.i.s.s. of the panopticon as well for some useful discussions and highlights of much of critical and cultural theory.
The Judgment of Paris
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