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The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.

Make sense? The authorx is Judith Butler, a prolix queer professor at UC-Berkeley.

Confession. I own a B.A. and M.A in English from CSU-Fulllerton. I have no clue what they (preferred pronoun) is saying.

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