K.I.S.S. of the Panopticon. Bentham Newsletter . Antonio Gramsci's idea of Hegemony is how the ruling class uses ideology as a soft form of control, one we in the lower and professional classes are socialized to take for granted. Hegemony is power taken for granted, treated as the only way we could organize our relationships of domination. Hegemonic Storytelling - Stories can be inhabited by many Western dualities, camouflaged in ideologies we rarely explore.
Stories can be hegemonic when various tellers impose their story onto others.
We just accept so many stories of our relationships as common sense practice, giving up our power. We surrender our consent to a story of power relations that we do not question. Various factions are at odds over story interpretations, and with shifts in contexts, the story work is never done. Story-habits Habits of story performance range from hierarchical separation of who monitors and delegates to including a great diversity of views and voices, even resistant ones. Story-passage points there are managerial, worker, and activist committees everywhere to decide if actions abide by the story, sort out alternative story interpretations, and take other hegemonic actions to make there story appear to be the comm on sense.