Noam Chomsky: Giving Up Hegemony for Lent
Video Reflection: According to Chomsky,"Hegemony has to do with a domination of the international system by small sectors of power. There has to be one super power which does not dominate the rest of the world in all dimensions but overwhelmingly develops it in one dimension." In class we talked about hegemony and its relation to gender, race and political economy.
I chose this video clip because of the engaging title. I wanted to write about hegemony when discussing key concepts of cultural studies because this word is something I was unaware of even existed. Something we discussed in class about hegemony was, "hegemony naturalizes ideology and renders it as common sense." I thought it was interested how we, as individuals, work collectively in reproducing our submission to ideologies by deeming them natural or neutral. (ISA) I think it is unbelievable how we naturalize education, family, religion, legal system and political systems, culture, communication media and more.
In class we were asked to form groups of two people and discuss gender, race and class ideologies to see what similar and common ideologies students could come up with. Most all of our answers, but a few, were the same and concluded to help us to better understand how hegemony works and ways in which we fall are categorized in this concept.
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