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(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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published a string of profiles platforming white supremacists and neo-Nazis as if they were now an accepted part of the social fabric (thus interpellating them as such)

—p.11 We, Anti-Fascists (7) by Natasha Lennard
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the ghost hardly stands alone in the set of beings interpellated through gender

—p.27 Ghost Stories (25) by Natasha Lennard
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the working-class subject was interpellated by New Labour as a being capable of radical, indeed practically infinite, self-transformation

—p.593 Anti-Therapy (589) by Mark Fisher
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All totalizing systems that interpellate individual subjects to coincide strictly with their chosen role as social beings always "expulse" a certain residue

—p.58 Subscribing to the Imaginary Party: Notes on a Politics of Neo-Communism (50) by Andy Merrifield
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7 years, 3 months ago


A person described as "mad" is constructed through interpellation by psychiatric discourse and clinical practice.

—p.82 Social Domination (63) by Graeme Kirkpatrick
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8 years, 10 months ago


As the French Marxist Louis Althusser pointed out in his essay on the ideological state apparatuses, this is what makes the ‘interpellation’ process (his name for a particular kind of capitalist indoctrination) so effective

—p.132 The Theatre of Loss … Work (130) by Peter Fleming
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8 years, 10 months ago


the unreasonable teenage belief that he should not be interpellated, which Emma had to google to learn that he felt he should not be collected into a humanlike image by the rods and cones of others.

lol

—p.46 Stump of the World (45) missing author
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2 years, 1 month ago


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.

—p.34 Level 1 (27) by Alfie Bown
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8 years, 8 months ago


The calling of Matthew is also known as his “vocation,” a word that reminds us here of the original etymological significance of a sacred interpellation, literally a calling from the divine.

—p.18 The Master’s Tools (3) by Jesse McCarthy
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