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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin subversion-, subversio, from [[Latin]] subvertere
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: the act of subverting : the state of being subverted; especially : a [[systematic]] attempt to overthrow or undermine a [[government]] or [[political]] [[system]] by [[persons]] working [[secretly]] from within
*2: obsolete : a [[cause]] of overthrow or destruction
==Description==
'''Subversion''' refers to an attempt to [[transform]] the [[established]] social order, its [[structures]] of [[power]], [[authority]], [[exploitation]], servitude, and [[hierarchy]]; examples of such structures include the [[state]]. It is an overturning or uprooting. A subversive is something or someone carrying the [[potential]] for some [[degree]] of subversion.
The [[word]] is present in all [[languages]] of [[Latin]] origin, originally applying to such [[events]] as the [[military]] defeat of a [[city]]. As early as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century], it was being used in the [[English]] language with [[reference]] to [[laws]], and in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th century] came to be used with respect to the realm. The term has taken over from ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition sedition]’ as the name for illicit [[rebellion]], though the connotations of the two words are rather [[different]], sedition suggesting overt [[attacks]] on [[institutions]], subversion something much more surreptitious, such as eroding the basis of [[belief]] in the [[status quo]] or setting people against each other.
Recent writers, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism post-modern] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism post-structuralist] [[traditions]] (including, particularly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist feminist] writers) have prescribed a very broad form of subversion. It is not, directly, the governing realm which should be subverted in their view, but the predominant [[cultural]] [[forces]], such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy patriarchy], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism individualism], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism scientism]. This broadening of the target of subversion owes much to the ideas of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci Antonio Gramsci], who stressed that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_revolution communist revolution] required the erosion of the particular form of ‘cultural [[hegemony]]’ in any society.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno Theodor Adorno] [[argued]] that the [[culture]] [[industry]] and its shallow [[entertainment]] was a system by which [[society]] was controlled through a top-down creation of standardized culture that intensified the commodification of artistic [[expression]]; in 1938 he said that [[capitalism]] has colonized every aspect of life so much that "every [[pleasure]] which emancipates itself from the exchange-[[value]] takes on subversive features".
In the 1970s, Deleuze and Guattari remarked the subversive nature of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libido sexual drives]:
<blockquote>If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire, no matter how small, is capable of calling into question the established order of a society: not that desire is asocial, on the contrary. But it is explosive; there is no desiring-machine capable of being assembled without demolishing entire social sectors. Despite what some revolutionaries think about this, desire is revolutionary in its essence — desire, not left-wing holidays! — and no society can tolerate a position of real desire without its structures of exploitation, servitude, and hierarchy being compromised.
</blockquote>
Hence the crucial role of the [[family]] in performing a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_repression psychic repression] on the child, which will make him grow up as a docile individual, an easy target for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_repression social repression].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversive]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
[[Category: Political Science]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin subversion-, subversio, from [[Latin]] subvertere
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: the act of subverting : the state of being subverted; especially : a [[systematic]] attempt to overthrow or undermine a [[government]] or [[political]] [[system]] by [[persons]] working [[secretly]] from within
*2: obsolete : a [[cause]] of overthrow or destruction
==Description==
'''Subversion''' refers to an attempt to [[transform]] the [[established]] social order, its [[structures]] of [[power]], [[authority]], [[exploitation]], servitude, and [[hierarchy]]; examples of such structures include the [[state]]. It is an overturning or uprooting. A subversive is something or someone carrying the [[potential]] for some [[degree]] of subversion.
The [[word]] is present in all [[languages]] of [[Latin]] origin, originally applying to such [[events]] as the [[military]] defeat of a [[city]]. As early as the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th century], it was being used in the [[English]] language with [[reference]] to [[laws]], and in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15th_century 15th century] came to be used with respect to the realm. The term has taken over from ‘[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition sedition]’ as the name for illicit [[rebellion]], though the connotations of the two words are rather [[different]], sedition suggesting overt [[attacks]] on [[institutions]], subversion something much more surreptitious, such as eroding the basis of [[belief]] in the [[status quo]] or setting people against each other.
Recent writers, in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism post-modern] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-structuralism post-structuralist] [[traditions]] (including, particularly, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist feminist] writers) have prescribed a very broad form of subversion. It is not, directly, the governing realm which should be subverted in their view, but the predominant [[cultural]] [[forces]], such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy patriarchy], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individualism individualism], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism scientism]. This broadening of the target of subversion owes much to the ideas of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Gramsci Antonio Gramsci], who stressed that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_revolution communist revolution] required the erosion of the particular form of ‘cultural [[hegemony]]’ in any society.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno Theodor Adorno] [[argued]] that the [[culture]] [[industry]] and its shallow [[entertainment]] was a system by which [[society]] was controlled through a top-down creation of standardized culture that intensified the commodification of artistic [[expression]]; in 1938 he said that [[capitalism]] has colonized every aspect of life so much that "every [[pleasure]] which emancipates itself from the exchange-[[value]] takes on subversive features".
In the 1970s, Deleuze and Guattari remarked the subversive nature of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libido sexual drives]:
<blockquote>If desire is repressed, it is because every position of desire, no matter how small, is capable of calling into question the established order of a society: not that desire is asocial, on the contrary. But it is explosive; there is no desiring-machine capable of being assembled without demolishing entire social sectors. Despite what some revolutionaries think about this, desire is revolutionary in its essence — desire, not left-wing holidays! — and no society can tolerate a position of real desire without its structures of exploitation, servitude, and hierarchy being compromised.
</blockquote>
Hence the crucial role of the [[family]] in performing a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_repression psychic repression] on the child, which will make him grow up as a docile individual, an easy target for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_repression social repression].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversive]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
[[Category: Political Science]]