ABSTRACT

Alice, ‘That makes all the difference.’ ‘But if you hadn’t done them,’ the Queen said, ‘that would

have been better still; better, and better, and better!’ Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

Ethics, ideology, and theory

Drawing upon the important work of both Williams and Gramsci, I argued at the very beginning of this book that control and domination are often vested in the commonsense practices and consciousness underlying our lives as well as by overt economic and political manipulation. Domination can be ideological as well as material.