Spent last night having a great discussion with students about philosophy and ideology. Unpicking the concept, discussing Engels, Gramsci, Foucault, Anderson and Haslanger, and generally thinking about how intellectual norms are constructed, how they shape our reality, and how we might make them visible for critique. We included some ideological critique of philosophy itself from people like de Sousa Santos and Halberstam, but my favourite bit was analysing the welcome message from their school’s website and flagging up all the embedded ideological assumptions the institution has about the sort of people they should grow up to be.

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