discontinuité
A point where the way something is spoken of changes; the archaeologist records the shift without explaining it.
Hitting a new tectonic plate: the point where one layer of discourse gives way to another.
The image Shore uses for it, in our paraphrase.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Discourse must be treated as discontinuous: the historian excavates layers of talk and marks the moments where the way something is spoken about shifts.
Put simply Foucault: a history of how people talk must look for breaks. The historian digs through layers of talk and marks the moments when the way something is spoken about changes.
When the discourse shifts, the archaeologist does not ask why. Causality is not the point; the task is to describe the break.
Put simply Foucault: when the way people talk shifts, the historian does not ask why. Causes are not the point; the job is to describe the break.
Shore's example of a Foucauldian discontinuity: the moment Czech and Slovak Marxist believers begin setting Stalinist words against others, class consciousness against individual conscience, the people against persons.
Put simply Shore's example of a Foucauldian break: the moment Czech and Slovak communist believers began setting Stalinist words against others, such as personal conscience against class consciousness, and individual persons against "the people."
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
FoucaultDiscourse must be treated as discontinuous: the historian excavates layers of talk and marks the moments where the way something is spoken about shifts. L21 · 43:13
ShoreShore's example of a Foucauldian discontinuity: the moment Czech and Slovak Marxist believers begin setting Stalinist words against others, class consciousness against individual conscience, the people against persons. L21 · 44:54
Shore offers the Czech and Slovak writers' shift in vocabulary as an example of what Foucault would call a moment of discontinuity.
Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.
Terms that appear in the same claims.