The subject-form of discourse in the subjective appropriation of scientific knowledges and political practice
pp. 155-170
in: , Language, semantics and ideology, Berlin, Springer, 1982Abstract
At this point I can return to the expression discursive practices, in so far as we now have the necessary conceptual bearings, both in the domain of the sciences and in that of politics (domains which are not juxtaposed or counterposed but articulated, as we have seen). We now know that every discursive practice is inscribed in the contradictory-uneven-overdetermined complex of the discursive formations which characterise the ideological instance in given historical conditions. These discursive formations are asymmetrically related to one another (by the "effects of the preconstructed' and "transverse-effects' or "articulation effects' that I have expounded above) in such a way that they are the sites of a work of reconfiguration which constitutes in different cases either a work of recuperation-reproduction-reinscription or a politically and/or scientifically productive work.