What’s new in the new ideology critique?

Generative Critique in Interdisciplinary Collaborations: From Critique in and of the Neurosciences to Socio-Technical Integration Research as a Practice of Critique in R(R)I

“…During the event, R(R)I was described as 'a new paradigm for innovation, that is both radically critical of and goes beyond previous (mainstream) paradigms of market innovation' ( [154], emphasis added). For some, the qualifier 'radically critical' may invoke immediate associations with twentieth-century ideology critique, that is, a deconstruction of hegemonic narratives, such as mainstream paradigms of market innovation, to reveal their ideological and distorting character [155]. However, as the audience was filled with researchers who have a background in STS, they probably rather think of Latour's diagnosis that ideology critique has 'run out of steam' and his plea for reconceptualising critique as unravelling the politics involved in making objects and facts [156].…”

The Issues Of The Dialogue Of A Modern Subject With The Society

“…The dialectics of the unique and typical in the analysis of the changed status of the social subject is a prerequisite for the revision of the main provisions of the theory of class reductionism as a fundamental methodological principle of the society structuring (Bocharov & Gavrilyuk, 2018). On the one hand, this brings the theoretical analysis of the relation between the subject and society as close as possible to their actual interaction in practice, since, for example, it shows the strengthening of the role of the superstructure in the determinants of social movement in the changed subject (Erman & Möller, 2019;Sankaran, 2019). But, on the other hand, revision of class demarcation has negative consequences in theory when the dialectics of collective and individual is violated (Tamminga & Hindriks, 2019).…”

“…Ideology in the characteristics of the subject of industrial society is understood as a collective episteme distortion, and irrationality, designed to support the adverse social conditions of existence. Modern analytical social philosophy argues that ideology is a convention, representing the equilibrium of a social coordination problem (Sankaran, 2019). But then the subject either coexists along with the problems arising in society (which is impossible, since society is a super-subject formation existing only through these subjects), or the subject is only a means of some dominant strategy of social development.…”

Explaining Ideology: Mechanisms and Metaphysics

“…In a nutshell, the argument is that cultural tools are themselves conventions and conventions are self-reinforcing for familiar strategic reasons. No irrationality, bias, or cognitive distortion needs to play a role and all relevant facts can be explained by strategic considerations (Sankaran 2020, 1446-1447, see O’Connor 2019, 3-5, 106-107). As it stands, talk of ideology is therefore explanatorily inadequate, but it would be redundant if supplemented with a theory of strategic interaction (Sankaran 2020, 1448, 1453).…”

“…No irrationality, bias, or cognitive distortion needs to play a role and all relevant facts can be explained by strategic considerations (Sankaran 2020, 1446-1447, see O’Connor 2019, 3-5, 106-107). As it stands, talk of ideology is therefore explanatorily inadequate, but it would be redundant if supplemented with a theory of strategic interaction (Sankaran 2020, 1448, 1453). Whatever the merit of the argument, it suggests that there must be more to ideology than being a coordination device to grant it a role in social science explanations.…”