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A Damascene Conversion: Subverting the discourse of exclusion 2
Discourse” is nothing but all “written and verbal communication”. In line of Gramsci and later Foucault we have to understand “discourse” as “institutionalized” way of thinking, or in words of Judith Butler “limits of acceptable” speech. Its these limits which subverted in order to reach a true libertarian discourse. The discourse is controlled by means of “exclusion”, no other opinion simply exists. Foucault writes: “Of the three great systems of exclusion governing discourse — prohibited words, the division of madness and the will to truth ———” “——One can straight away distinguish some of the methodological demands they imply. A principle of reversal, first of all…. Next, then, the principle of discontinuity ….” I am planning to do all this , i am trying to bring forward the “prohibited voices”, those which have been … Read entire article »
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