V.V.A.A. - Philosophy of the encounter.

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Hélène Rytman & Tatiana Istomina. Fhilosofhy of the Encounter
Hélène Rytman & Tatiana IstominaFhilosofhy of the Encounter
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Hélène Rytman & Tatiana IstominaTatiana Istomina's conceptual art/writing project is inspired by the story of Hélène Rytman, who was murdered by her husband, prominent Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, in 1980. Today Hélène is largely forgotten; in death, as in life, she remains an insignificant woman lost in the shadow of her famous husband. Althusser, on the other hand, persists as an influential thinker: his texts written before and after the murder continue to be published, widely read and discussed. Althusser’s main contribution to theory is his famous analysis of ideology. He defines ideology as a set of discourses and concepts through which we live our relationship with reality, but which do not truly represent this reality: ideology makes us believe that we are free subjects, while in fact our thoughts and actions are fully controlled by the state, family, education, and other ideological structures. There has been little discussion on how Althusser’s crime relates to his theory. At the time of the murder, was he, the radical philosopher, a free individual, a cog in the oppressive ideological apparatus, or simply a puppet activated by social or biological forces outside his control? The artist book Fhilosofhy of the Encounter considers this question from Helene’s point of view, reconstructing what could be her side of the story and reviewing Althusserian theory from this new perspective.