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Alfie Bown
interpellation
(en)
(common Althusserian term) the process by which ideology, embodied in major social and political institutions (ideological & repressive state apparatuses), constitutes the very nature of individual subjects' identities through the process of "hailing" them in social interactions
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We can perhaps say that gaming interpellates [...] if gaming interpellates fragmented subjects, giving them a sense of purpose, then it does so in the service of dominant ideologies.
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We can perhaps say that gaming interpellates [...] if gaming interpellates fragmented subjects, giving them a sense of purpose, then it does so in the service of dominant ideologies.
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prelapsarian
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(adjective) characteristic of or belonging to the time or state before the fall of humankind
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European dreams of exiting the EU to return to some prelapsarian national serenity in isolation
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European dreams of exiting the EU to return to some prelapsarian national serenity in isolation
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jouissance
(fr)
physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy; the concept featured heavily in the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan's and was expanded on by Roland Barthes for literary theory, to contrast with mere "pleasure" derived from reading texts that don't challenge the reader as a subject. can also refer to pleasure that devolves into pain
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the dreamworld can be thought of as the world of jouissance
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the dreamworld can be thought of as the world of jouissance
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