ENG100H1 Lecture Notes - Episteme, Shotgun House, Miguel Street
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It "rules in" certain ways of talking about a topic, defining an acceptable and intelligible way to talk, write, or conduct oneself -it. "urles out" limits and restricts other ways of talking, of conduc ting ourselves in relation to the topic or constructing knowledge bout it. It is not that nothing exists outside of discoure, it is that nothing meningful exists outside of discourse. And what is absent any meaning cannot affect self, or image, or self-image, or social practice. 7. things mean something and are "ture" only within a specific historical context. discourse and practice precedes the appearnce of the thing made meaningful, the object named, the subject disciplined. A discourse about "madness" precedes the appearance of someone judged. We once though language simply "reported" what was there, but language. It is not simjply a question of nerve endings. It is also social practice, what is allowed, what if forbidden, what may be shown, what must be covered.
