According to Raymond Williams.
I'm trying to find the full text of a quote excerpted and ellipsed by Stuart Hall (1986). The closest I've found is:
"...apparently more neutral sense of ideology in some parts of Marxís writing, notable in the well-known passage in the Contribution to the Critique of Political Philosophy (1859):
"The distinction should always be made between the material transformation of the economic conditions of productionÖand the legal, political, religious, aesthetic or philosophic ó in short, ideological ó forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out."
Hall (a busy man) starts with "ideological" and deletes the hyphen right after it - which makes the rest of the sentence seem much more definitive. Also, he has deleted "this", which refers the entire point back to the transformation of production and its conflict (his word!) with the institutions (and their institutionalized discourses?) listed above. Except there is another ellipses preceding the list of so-called "ideological forms" which is why I'd like to see the whole dang thing!
Mick Underwood's awesome summary of uses and definitions for "code".
Includes a much needed definition for discourse!
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