Discourses embody meaning and social relationships. They are about who can speak, when and with what authority.
Discourses are about the 'normalisation' of social principles and institutions of modern society; such as in the legal,
medical, penitential and educational institutions
Discourses are about the formations and constitutions of human beings as subjects.
Discourses are not about objects, they do not identify objects,they constitute them and in the practise of doing so they conceal their own invention.
Meaning thus arises not from words or language but from institutional practises, from power relations; the words and concepts we employ are embedded in discourses.
So what? I hear you ask.
Well, discourse constrains the possibility of our thought. Discourse conceals its power structure and we are lead by it as if we had a ring through our noses.
Discourse pacifies us.
Discourses are about the 'normalisation' of social principles and institutions of modern society; such as in the legal,
medical, penitential and educational institutions
Discourses are about the formations and constitutions of human beings as subjects.
Discourses are not about objects, they do not identify objects,they constitute them and in the practise of doing so they conceal their own invention.
Meaning thus arises not from words or language but from institutional practises, from power relations; the words and concepts we employ are embedded in discourses.
So what? I hear you ask.
Well, discourse constrains the possibility of our thought. Discourse conceals its power structure and we are lead by it as if we had a ring through our noses.
Discourse pacifies us.
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