The archaeology of knowledge
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...This essay is a call to examine how celebrities are part of a ‘discursive formation’ (Foucault 1972), everyday discourses that reproduce material life....
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...Their speeches and pronouncements may not be the most riveting pieces of rhetoric you’ll ever see but they are seemingly meant to persuade and cajole from a strong ‘position of enunciation’ (Foucault, 1969) placed above our field of discourse....
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...Foucault (1972) was interested in discourse, and how “a certain ‘way of speaking’” can convey meaning (p. 193)....
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...…of these principals, we argue that NAPLAN data function ‘at the limit of discourse’ in that data create those ‘objects of which it can speak . . . in order to speak of this or that object, in order to deal with them, name them, analyse them, classify them, explain them’ (Foucault 1977, p. 46)....
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...Regularities are instances of the ordering of discourses, the ways in regularity determines ‘the group of relations that discourse must establish in order to speak of this or that object, in order to deal with them, name them, analyse them, classify them, explain them etc’ (Foucault 1977, p. 46)....
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...They are ‘objects to be described for themselves’ because to ‘analyse discourse is to hide and reveal contradictions; it is to show the play that they set up within it; it is to manifest how it can express them, embody them, or give them a temporary appearance’ (Foucault 1977, p. 151)....
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...Statements constitute discourse, and are central to discursive formations, which operate as the description of ‘a system of dispersion, whenever, between objects, types of statement, concepts, or thematic choices, one can define a regularity’ (Foucault 1977, p. 38)....
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