Foucault argues that discursive formations are constantly becoming epistemologized, ‘shot through with the positivity of knowledge’ (1972, p. 194). Unpacking this process involves a look at the specificity, function and network of dependencies that attends to dispersion and scattering, a decentering operation that produces differences. (p. 41)
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