The Butler Did It

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The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood
>   to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view
>   of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition,
>   convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality
>   into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of
>   Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical
>   objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility
>   of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up
>   with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of
>   power.
>

This idea was brilliantly expressed by an adult DJ, played by the charactor
of his father, Dan Connor- "They say it's the same, but it's not the same.
They say it's the same, but it's not the same.  They say it's the same, but
it's not the same.  They say it's the same, but it's not the same."