‘Tissue on the Bones’: Towards the Development of a Post-structuralist Institutionalism

Moon, David

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“…19 Think of how successful fictional characters have much longer lives than individual human beings even in oral traditions, and we get a sense of how drastically stabilizing uploading or inscribing them upon objects can be. This understanding, then, materialises the relative stability of Mouffe's nodal points, coming literally with an iron answer to the challenge laid out by the defenders of single-model transcendental structuralism in CDA, to provide for an explanation of stability from an ontological position of difference, relationality, relativism, and radical contingency-along the way reinforcing other attempts to finally do away with the old institutionalisms (Moon, 2013;Panizza and Miorelli, 2013). It explains, also, the appearance of linearity in technological change -which is not pre-given at all: technologies can and have been destroyed and forever forgotten.…”

Section: Part 3 Answering Old Controversiesmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…The point is not entirely justified: from the approach developed by Laclau and Mouffe one can very well account for relative permanence (one only needs to refuse an eternal one) as well as a relatively stable institutional reality (for post-structuralist discursive institutionalism: see for example, Moon, 2013;Panizza and Miorelli, 2013). Nevertheless, the problem is well understood: from the "thick" constructivism of DT, the central question becomes how to explain stability rather than change, similar to many other inquiries that tend to emphasize panta rhei by pointing out historicity or contingency (historians, symbolic interactionists, ethnomethodologists, post-structuralists, phenomenologists and so on).…”

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Materializing discourse analysis with James, Schmitt and Latour

Eeden

2017

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This article describes a turn from a regular discourse analytical perspective to a radical empiricist sensibility and "new materialist" approach, triggered by studying the remarkable wave of political ecology movements in Eastern Europe in the years around the collapse of state socialism. Such a "turn" is not new in itself. Most importantly, it has been pioneered in science and technology studiesin the work of Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, John Law and Donna Haraway. More recently it has been picked up in political theory, by Jane Bennett among others, and is currently gaining momentum with the advent of the Anthropocene, the epoch in which mankind has become the predominant geological determinant, turning the biophysical sciences from a politically "neutral" domain into one that stands today at the heart of political debate. When it comes to the current discourse analysis community, however, taking biophysical actors and materiality into account, as co-shaping political processes, turns out to have its own particular intricacies. In the first part of this study two of the most influential schools in English-language discourse analysis are reviewed in this light -Essex Discourse Theory (DT) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) -focusing on their approach to political ecology and global warming.It appears that CDA, to make strong critique possible, assumes it must project a separate world of intransient 'real' relational structures behind discourse, leading to insensibility over the agency of materiality, animals or physical things, as CDA associates them with this intransient world. DT, on the other hand, relies on Derridean post-structuralism, and refuses to separate a static extra-discursive realm, but tends to regress into narrow linguistic reductionism. In the second part of the study, a three-stepped procedure is proposed for solving these problems, as an expansion of "new materialist" political theory thus far, and an anchor point for further discussion among discourse analysts. It consists of: (1) breaking with the reservations to empiricism, within both the DT and CDA community, by adopting the "radical empiricism" of American pragmatist William James; (2) rooting politicality in materiality by turning to the controversial Carl Schmitt, which reverses critical realist approaches to politicization; (3) drawing material and biophysical objects, humans, and language in the same analytical orbit, without abolishing difference overall, as achieved by Bruno Latour among others. Finally, the third part of this paper shows how the approach that so emerges answers the aporia in CDA and DT, provides a note on its methodic consequences, and emphasizes intersections between current ecological crises, the Anthropocene, and feminist and postcolonial theory, which should further convince that turning to materiality today is rather congruent with the equalitarian and participatory aims of discourse analystsbut also places an urgent call to do away with classic forms of critical realism, and make work of bre...

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Section: Part 3 Answering Old Controversiesmentioning

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Section: Part 1 Controversiesmentioning

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Materializing discourse analysis with James, Schmitt and Latour

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2017

Palgrave Commun

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“…Several scholars have in fact tried to rectify this alleged deficiency by merging PSDT with Discursive Institutionalism, an approach to ideational analysis that they claim is better at capturing societal continuity and stability (Moon 2013;Panizza and Miorelli 2013). Yet the charge that PSDT suffers from a "problem of institutions" is not accepted by most poststructuralist scholars, including Larsson, who see it as based on a misunderstanding (Hansen 2014;Larsson 2015;Jacobs 2018).…”

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The Dislocated Universe of Laclau and Mouffe: An Introduction to Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory

Jacobs¹

2018

Critical Review

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Post-structuralist Discourse Theory is an approach to political analysis that reformulates Marxist theory so as to emphasize structural contingency and openness. Whereas classic Marxian sociology is rooted in economic processes that "structure" society and ideas, post-structuralist Discourse Theory emphasizes the absence of any determinative principle. Thus, it radicalizes an ongoing shift in Marxism away from economic essentialism towards indeterminacy. The ideological superstructure becomes ever more important at the expense of the economic base; class struggle and production relations lose analytical and strategic purchase in favor of a complex and integral form of politics; there are no deeper, natural foundations determining how society is organized and structured. Post-structuralist discourse-theorists argue that this orientation leads to a more satisfactory analysis and critique of political practice than is possible through positivist behaviorism or orthodox Marxism. Assessing that claim requires a survey of the hermetic terminology in which poststructuralist discourse-theorists often express their ideas-the discourse, as it were, of discourse-theorists-exploring their use of Marxist sociology, structuralist linguistics, psychoanalysis, populism research, and various currents of political theory.

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“…Bu "tarihsellik sonrası kurumsalcı" yaklaşımlar, eskilerin düşünce ve fikirlerin etkililiği üzerindeki odaklanmasını bünyelerinde barındırmaktadırlar. Onların en önemli teorik gelişimi, kurumların yapılandırıcılığı üzerindeki verilen önemden kaynaklanmaktadır (Moon, 2013).…”

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Yenilikçi Paradigmalar Işığında Türkiye’de Bölgesel Kalkınmacılık Krizi

Efe¹

2016

Uluslararası Ekonomi Ve Yenilik Dergisi

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‘Tissue on the Bones’: Towards the Development of a Post-structuralist Institutionalism

Cited by 35 publications

References 27 publications

Materializing discourse analysis with James, Schmitt and Latour

Materializing discourse analysis with James, Schmitt and Latour

The Dislocated Universe of Laclau and Mouffe: An Introduction to Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory

Yenilikçi Paradigmalar Işığında Türkiye’de Bölgesel Kalkınmacılık Krizi

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