By Rosemary Hennessy
Drawing on a world variety of examples, from Che Guevarra to "The Crying Game," Profit and Pleasure leads the dialogue of sexuality to a attention of fabric truth and the substance of fellows and women's daily lives.
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9 Ruling ideas are not guaranteed dominance under capitalism because they are already coupled to the ruling class (Hall, “Guarantees,” 44). Rather, it is the coupling of dominant ideas to a historical bloc that has acquired power over the means of production that ideological struggle is intended to secure. Class relations set the terrain for these struggles. As they are fought out, historical connections are established that map the ideological landscape of a particular social formation. These historical connections span bureaucratic and legal “official stories,” the theories and empirical proofs of science, the traces and stratified deposits of popular philosophy Gramsci refers to as “common sense” (1971, 324).
Because the process of social reproduction depends on a vast array of cultural forms and because this process is so complex and uneven, historicizing in the sense I use it here can never be reductive or totalizing. ” But it does endeavor to make apparent the connections between discursive practices and historical relations that are not discursive or cultural. In short, to historicize is to make visible the complex mediated relationships between particular or local cultural forms and global capitalism’s fundamental class structures of which they are a part.
Which reveals the innermost secret, the hidden basis of the entire social structure, and with it the political form of the relations of sovereignty and dependence, the corresponding specific form of the state. — from showing infinite variations and setting the terms —— 17 gradations in appearance, which can be ascertained only by analysis of the empirically given circumstances. (Capital III, 791– 93) Here Marx is understanding “the innermost secret” of capitalist relations — the economic relationship of owner and producer — as a determining logic.