episteme

is researched through the analysis of discourse.

The concept of an episteme is insufficient and dispositif fills in the gap. An episteme isresearched through the analysis of discourse (text), but there are practices (institutions,architectural arrangements, regulations, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements,philosphic propositions, morality, philanthropy) in addition to discourse which we may use to doa genealogical analysis of some particular situation (Dreyfus and Rabinow, p.121). Thesepractices form an intensified surveillance and control mechanism (Darier, 589), creating policywhich polices and disciplines and which leads to resistance among certain groups. (net)

is the accepted description of how one knows.

The natural tendency of theory of what unites philosophy and science in the episte me [the accepted description of how one knows] will push rather toward filling in the breach than toward forcing the enclosure. It was normal that the breakthrough was more secure and more penetrating in the areas of literature and poetry.' (139, 92) (spivak in on grammatology : 72).

is the orderly unconscious structures underlying the production of scientific knowledge in a particular time and place.

This term, which Foucault introduces in his book The Order of Things, refers to the orderly 'unconscious' structures underlying the production of scientific knowledge in a particular time and place. It is the 'epistemological field' which forms the conditions of possibility for knowledge in a given time and place. It has often been compared to T.S Kuhn's notion of paradigm.''ensemble of practices' (62)

is the total set of relations that unite, at any given period, practices that give rise to epistemological figures, sciences, formalized systems.

the total set of relations that unite, at any given period, the discursive practices that give rise to epistemological figures, sciences, and possibly formalized systems. . . .the totality of relations' (Foucault, AK 191). . . .

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