Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs

Rhetoric CFPs & TOCs
Photo: Kristoffer Trolle (creative commons)

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Foucault on the Discursive Construction of Agency




More on Agency (from Susanne Eichner, Agency and Media Reception: Experiencing Video Games, Film, and Television)
Discourses construct subject positions, which enable relative forms of agency. Provided the adequate discourse, agency can be thus regarded as a discursive creation, constituting a pro- ductive (rather than exclusively repressive) disposition of power. 

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