Slog - Comments on A Lesson in Interpellation http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state This morning, booming from a police car: "You in the green Honda! Pay attention to what you are doing. If you're going to make a right turn, make a right turn. Get your act together and stay focused." Through the PA system, the booming voice of the state. It filled the street below my window. The state called a subject out of the order of the ordinary morning. It made an exception of him/her. "You in the green Honda!" It was not me being called (I was in bed). The state did not say: "You in the big bed."... Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:47:06 -0800 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:37:18 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe I wish I could throw my drink in your face.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098012 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098012 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:03 -0800 Comment by Ziggity Hey you! In the deluded haze of self-importance! Nobody cares!

x's and o's,
The state

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098014 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:54:43 -0800 Comment by Bryce Beamish Oh my holy fucking god.

Con Air was a sweet movie too. And you know what the best part about that one was? I never heard anyone try to use nick cage as a metaphor for the state of the world. I never had to hear about how important the critic felt in his big comfy bed the morning before he wrote the review. I didn't have to imagine that critic walking into his office with a giant boner for his shit ideas.

Why?

Because nobody. Nobody. Fucking Cares.

]]> Bryce Beamish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098018 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098018 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:01:13 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I wish I could watch the cops arrest Mr. Poe for throwing his tea in your face.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098025 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098025 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:06:55 -0800 Comment by eric sic Hey, you there, windbag! On behalf of those who read and enjoy the continental philosophy on which you seem to base these ridiculous posts: Get Off Our Side.

]]> eric sic http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098035 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098035 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:10:26 -0800 Comment by Matthew What makes you think that the officer calling out the green Honda driver was anything more than ordinary? That sounds like a very ordinary occurrence to me.

]]> Matthew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098049 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098049 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:17:10 -0800 Comment by Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist I thought you would be overjoyed in hearing this, as this event would be commonplace in an ideal communist society.

]]> Charles_Mudede_Is_A_Latent_Racist http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098052 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:19:45 -0800 Comment by Dr. Savage Mudede It's another Mudede Monday, folks, and we're celebrating with a two-for-one Happy Hour* special down at The Stranger Bar! Try our new Mudito(tm), a 96oz smooth summer blend of Johnnie Walker Black and muddled khat leaves, the perfect lubricant for masturbatory musings!

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]]> Dr. Savage Mudede http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098059 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:23:39 -0800 Comment by Super Jesse I'm going to ignore this post, therefor you don't exist now charles.

I was going to not comment, and in so not doing I would reinforce your non-individuality.

But then I decided that this was a special case requiring me to stick my head out and remind you how totally irrelevant this post is.

]]> Super Jesse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098072 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098072 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:33:03 -0800 Comment by lindsay Charles, perhaps you have confused yourself with Louis Althusser, Slog with the essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)" [http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/LPOE70ii.html#s5] and the year with 1971. I do hope you sort yourself out before you strangle your wife.

]]> lindsay http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098259 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098259 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:21:40 -0800 Comment by elenchos I think this is interesting and I hope for more from Charles about it, perhaps in a new book or movie.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098485 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098485 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:00:12 -0800 Comment by David E. Yes, well, the thing is that we're always already interpellated into some ideology. The example Althusser gave is an example that doesn't quite get across this notion. But the same thing happened to me a year or so ago downtown and the first thing I thought was that I had been hailed...and I later blogged about it.

]]> David E. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/the_subject_of_the_state#c1098578 City Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:37:18 -0800