From: "Torgeir Fjeld" <tor-AT-macnet.co.za> Subject: Discourses and positions Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:38:14 +0200 Hello all, At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I have an issue I would like to raise with those of you who might be interested in analogies between Bourdieu's texts/analysis and those of Laclau and Mouffe. Well, ehrm, that's what I'm busy doing, and I stumbled into an issue I wondered if you would comment on. Bourdieu says in the preface to Homo Academicus (thanks George!) that one cannot "seek the source of the understanding of cultural productions in these productions themselves, taken in isolation and divorced from the conditions of their production and utilization, as would be the wish of _discourse analysis_, which [...] has nowadays relapsed into indefensible forms of internal analysis. Scientific analysis must work to relate to each other two sets of relations, the space of works or discourses taken as differential stances, and the space of the positions held by those who produce them" (xvii). He appears to make a case for a domain outside discourses here, a space which appear to have relative dominance to the cultural field, a known theme from i.e. Distinction. Laclau and Mouffe on the other hand, "rejects the distinction between discursive and non-discursive practices" (Hegemony and Socialist Strategy 107). Are we confronted with two opposing definitions of discourse here? Regards, Torgeir ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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