It's his readiness to embrace contradictions — stylistic, emotional, ideological — that makes his work still seem so modern, half a century on.
Since the 1960s, many artists, from Hans Haacke to Daniel Buren, Cildo Meireles to Allan Sekula, have made work which offers a critique of the institution that houses it, and the structures, financial and ideological, that support it.
Almost 30 years later, the issue is still so clouded by personal bitterness and ideological rivalry that it's impossible to say for sure what happened.
Many of Dabiq's new residents have taken prominent roles in the legions of Arab and western Muslims who have helped turn Isis into the potent and terrifying ideological force that it now represents.
But despite the storm that the $674 billion plan will generate (and the prompt Democratic attacks on it as irresponsible, ineffective and ideological show that it will be of hurricane force), Republicans hailed Mr. Bush as a leader who understood the political power of a big idea and the critical need to tend to his conservative, tax-cut loving base.
What he would have known is that the scene before him was one of such ideological purity that it would make anyone marvel that China was ready to shake hands with the world again after the plunge through the political rabbit hole of the Cultural Revolution.
The latter acted on the ideological grounds that it constituted what they believed to be a necessary dialectical step towards the implosion of capitalism and the ultimate revolutionary victory of communism.
Though this theory was later to be complicated and revised, during this period, Althusser consistently argued that Marx's work prior to 1845 was ideological and that it was saturated with non-Marxian concepts borrowed from Hegel's and Feuerbach's philosophical anthropologies.
His analysis is so simplistic in the pursuit of the approval of support of his ideological agenda that it inspires no response but... huh?
