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deconstruction
Literature; General
To take apart, to undo, in order to seek out and display the assumptions, rhetorical strategies and blind-spots of texts. The dismantling of hierarchical binary oppositions such as reality/ ...
demystification
Literature; General
For Barthes, the funtion of the mythologists, as opposed to that of the myth-makers, was to counter myth by exposing what he saw as delusion or lies (…) He wished to open the eyes of the public to ...
denotation
Literature; General
The descriptive and literal level of meaning shared by virtually all members of a culture.
discipline
Literature; General
Discipline involves the organization of the subject in space through dividing practices, training and standarization. It produces subjects by categorizing and naming them in a hierarchical order ...
discourse
Literature; General
For Foucault, from whom cultural studies derives its usage of this term, discourse “unites” both language and practice. The idea refers to the production of knowledge through language which gives ...
discursive formations
Literature; General
Patterns of discursive events that bring into being a common object across a number of sites. They are regulated maps of meaning or ways of speaking through which objects and practices acquire ...
discursive practices
Literature; General
Foucault specifies these conditions more precisely in the Archeology, where he redefines the épistemè as "the total set of relations that unite, at a given period, the discursive practices that give ...
