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French Marxist philosopher — 1918–1990
École Normale Supérieure, Paris · France · d. 16 October 1918 (Birmendreïs, French Algeria) — 22 October 1990 (Paris)
Recast Marxism as a science broken off from its humanist beginnings, and gave the theory of ideology its most cited formulation. In November 1980 he strangled his wife, Hélène Rytmann, at the École Normale Supérieure; found unfit to stand trial under Article 64 of the French penal code, he was committed rather than prosecuted.
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Louis Althusser built the concept of interpellation to protect a scientific reading of 'Capital'. The science was abandoned; the street scene went everywhere. A reckoning with what survives, what does not, and the killing that the profession spent forty years learning how to describe.
Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser
Archive research, pedagogy, political theory, film and literature: across sixty years Jacques Rancière has restated one claim in five different materials. Equality is not a destination but a premise, and politics is the moment someone demonstrates it. The claim has costs, and his critics have named them precisely.
Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Louis Althusser
