Revisiting the Althusser/E. P. Thompson-Controversy: Towards a Marxist theory of communication

被引:10
作者
Fuchs, Christian [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Westminster, 309 Regent St, London W1B 2HT, England
关键词
Communication theory; critical theory of communication; Edward P. Thompson; humanism; Louis Althusser; Marxist theory; structuralism;
D O I
10.1177/2057047319829586
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This essay revisits the controversy between Louis Althusser's Marxist structuralism and Edward P. Thompson's Marxist humanism. It draws conclusions from this controversy for the foundations of the Marxist theory of communication. The controversy's key disagreements concern the questions of how the economic and the non-economic (the base/superstructure problem), as well as structures and agency are related. Whereas Althusser focuses on articulation and over-determination, Thompson stresses the role of experience in society in general, and class societies in particular. This essay reflects on how both these approaches relate to the role of communication in society and capitalism. Communication is a process in which humans produce and reproduce social relations in manners that mediate not just understanding the world and other humans, but also the dialectic of structure and agency and the dialectic of society's realms. For a Marxist theory of society, also the forgotten meaning of communication as commoning is of crucial importance.
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