Ideology

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Ideology is “a Cultural Technē gone wrong”:Haslanger (2021), 28. This conception of ideology follows Haslanger (2017, 2018, 2021) and goes back to Althusser and the Marxist understanding of ideology as false consciousness.

a “network of social meanings, tools, scripts, schemas, heuristics, principles, and the like”Haslanger (2017), 155

which is distorted in specific ways so that it hides aspects of the world the perception of which would question or threaten systems of Power and the social order they impose.

An encompassing ideology like Consumerism acts as a Nexus of Delusion.

An example for an ideology in action is how Geology is shaped by ideology.

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