Wrong Side of History

Wrong Side of History

Why is so much academic writing unreadable?

Structures… patriarchy… hegemony… something something… structures

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Ed West
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‘The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theo…

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