Enriching Discourse Theory: The Discursive-Material Knot as a Non-Hierarchical Ontology

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204378919X15526540593633" target="_blank" >10.1332/204378919X15526540593633</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enriching Discourse Theory: The Discursive-Material Knot as a Non-Hierarchical Ontology

Original language description

Laclau and Mouffe&apos;s discourse theory has played a significant role in thinking through the political role of knowledge and ideology, without ignoring the significance of the material, also in relation to its post-Marxist agenda and the de-essentialisation of class relations. At the same time, there is a need to enrich discourse theory, by finding a better balance between the discursive and the material, and by providing a better theoretisation of the entanglement of the discursive and the material. This article remains grounded in, and loyal to, discourse theory, but aims to learn from new materialism in order to develop a non-hierarchical theory of entanglement, as a discursive-material knot. In particular, it investigates the theoretical conceptual potential of three concepts, namely the assemblage, the invitation and the investment. This theoretical development also has strategic importance, in that it facilitates a better and more constructive dialogue between different (critical) fields, for instance, between those that are explicitly engaged with discourse theory and new materialism, but also between the emancipatory project(s) that post-Marxism advocates, namely cultural studies and (critical) political economy.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought [online]

ISSN

2043-7897

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

369-384

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077556776