> What's a shame is that Althusser and others in the 70s warned us about them and explained their functioning rather clearly. True on the warning though I thin

> What's a shame is that Althusser and others in the 70s warned us about them and explained their functioning rather clearly. True on the warning though I think I'd dispute the 'clearly' aspect. As a philosophy undergrad (admittedly in a dept with a solidly 'analytic' tendency) I found that kind of stuff (from fairly glancing acquaintance) a bit indigestible. In any case AFAIK it never found much demotic expression, so was never going to be politically very useful. Zizek's closer perhaps. But still hardly enough to lift the curtain for most not academically acculturated. Most of us have no idea that common sense is ideological, and, by and large, academia hasn't done much to help this situation.