Isn’t it the case that poststrucuralism makes everything into discourse suffocating any chance of human agency in the process?\u00a0 Language refers to something out there doesn’t it?\u00a0 People are active subjects too eh?<\/p>\n
Actually language is what makes reality possible for us.\u00a0 Social agents always find themselves ‘thrown into’ a system of meaningful practices, and these structures they’re thrown into however are\u00a0ontologically incomplete<\/em>.<\/p>\n Indeed it is in the ‘space’ or ‘gap’ of social structures, as they are rendered visible in moments of crisis and dislocation, that a political subject can emerge through particular ‘acts of identification’.\u00a0 Moreover as these identifications are\u00a0 understood to take place across a range of possible ideologies or discourses – some of which are excluded or repressed – and as these are always incomplete, then any <\/em>form of identification is doomed to fall short of its promise (Glynos, Howarth 2007: 79).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isn’t it the case that poststrucuralism makes everything into discourse suffocating any chance of human agency in the process?\u00a0 Language refers to something out there doesn’t it?\u00a0 People are active subjects too eh? Actually language is what makes reality possible for us.\u00a0 Social agents always find themselves ‘thrown into’ a system of meaningful practices, and … Continue reading “Poststructuralism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discourse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}