discursive practice

is a set of cultural rules that organize and produce forms of knowledge, which, much like grammar, permit or deny certain things from being sayable.

This term refers to a historically and culturally specific set of rules for organizing and producing different forms of knowledge. It is not a matter of external determinations being imposed on people's thought, rather it is a matter of rules which, a bit like the grammar of a language, allow certain statements to be made.

is arguments, on books whereas non-discursive practices is the on-the ground monitoring of people, disciplining, torturing. ..

Foucault clearly distinguished between discursive practices -arguments, on books -and non-discursive practices monitoring people, disciplining, torturing. . . these are non-discursive. Cultural studies have decided that 'discipline, hand-cuffs' are discursive -Let's respect what foucault said. he was bringing in the body as an object of torture, of drill, as a separate thing.. as a non-discursive practice. . . . (delanda lecture)

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discursive practice