ABSTRACT
Dialectical materialism is the name that we give to this desire to break out of the closure of consensus, to bestow on thought the potentiality of an act. Hybridity, like all progeny of poststructuralism, falls within this quandary, and it is our duty as thinkers to give it the dignity of a concept, a productive stimulus to thought that will outline a trajectory, an exit point from the circularity of contemporary social theory. Althusser essentially politicizes Kant when he proposes that “reality” is intrinsically ideological, that all gregarious experience is mediated through ideological categories. This is to say that ideology, as that which makes experience comprehensible, is intrinsically value-free. If singularity is that which exists in- and for-itself, with no reference to an overarching whole, then every affirmation of singularity is necessarily one of subtraction and desertion, a gesture of withdrawal.
