...157l, that Foucault or Deleuze, or indeed, implicitly, Gayle Rubin choose as their analytical field. "We must conceive discourse as a series of discontinuous...whose tactical function is neither uniform nor stable" (HS, 100l. Rubin, Deleuze, and Guattari seem to know their relationship to Marx. Kalpana Bardhan, like...

...strategical situation in a particular society (1:93), together with his injunction that one must never "imagine a world of discourse divided between accepted discourse and excluded discourse . . . but as a multiplicity of discursive elements . . . the things said and those concealed, the enunciations...

...utterances pertaining to a particular concept whose meaning is thereby constituted and contested, that "series of discontinuous segments whose tactical function is neither uniform nor stable." 17 Discourse, then, is entirely within, yet not necessarily in the service of, mechanisms of power....

...discourse can be divided into dominant and dominated discourse, Foucault argues for a conception of discourse as "a series of discontinuous segments whose...tactical function is neither uniform nor stable." This instability means that the beginnings of an opposing strategy are not located "outside" a discourse...

...gives a diachronic view of objects Wittgenstein would have characterized synchronically. He describes discourse as "a series of discontinuous segments whose...tactical function is neither uniform nor stable." 80 It is a collection of fragments grouped and interconnected around a "support." The support is the...

...use it. Its crucial features, for him, are its logically limitless dispersal and proliferation: it is "a series of discontinuous segments whose tactical function is neither uniform nor stable," "a multiplicity of discursive elements that can come into play in various strategies."104 If Foucault...

...system of signs that embodies universalistic principles of communication. In his words, "discourse [is] a series of discontinuous segments whose tactical function is neither uniform nor stable ... we must not imagine a world of discourse divided between accepted discourse and excluded discourse,...

...imprecise and personal, a matter of exchange and doubt, rather than structure and historical subjugation: [I]t is in discourse that power and knowledge are...together. And for this very reason we must conceive of discourse as a series of discontinuous segments whose tactical function is neither uniform nor stable....

...approaching this Latin tag I have been mindful of something Michel Foucault said in The History of Sexuality: [W]e must not imagine a world of discourse divided...discourse and excluded discourse, or between the dominant and the dominated one; but as a multiplicity of discursive elements ... Discourses are not once and...

...works. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, vol. 1 ( 1976), Foucault briefly defines discourse: "We must conceive discourse as a series of discontinuous...accepted discourse and excluded discourse, or between dominant discourse and dominated one; but as a multiplieity of discursive elements that can come into...