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Systemic materialism · philosophy of ideologies

Gustavo E. Romero

Society is a material system with four subsystems — biological, economic, political, cultural — each with relative autonomy. An ideology is a tuple with a hard core defended against the friction of the real; nationalism is a micro-ideology and a social pseudo-technology.

What it does in the chain

Gives the third link: the four domains, one register of belonging each, and domination as the colonisation of one domain by another. The ideology × domain × register matrix is coded with his categories.

Where it is used

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Interpretation  This reading is the author’s, and is marked as such.