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No ultimate answer: discourses = knowledge not just description

For Foucault, there is no ultimate answer waiting to be uncovered. It is discourses that are the source of our knowledge and it is therefore discourses that constitute out social world, they don’t just describe it.

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No ultimate answer: discourses = knowledge not just description
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‘Real’ world is like a text: it is inly 'real' through interpretation
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Discourse = specific series of representations & practices
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Foucault: used the idea of discourse and discourses of power
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Policy & action are explained through language as interpretation
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The meaning of events is produced through interpretation
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