The paradoxical nature of discursive systems: Discursive conventions can only originate in discourse [But discourse depends on discursive conventions].
His research focuses on how narratives are constructed through digital and new media, and how these discursive systems influence our understanding of moral value.
The tensions among these conflicting identities open up spaces for disrupting the discursive systems that construct us.
Lastly, for Butler, it makes no sense to postulate a materiality outside of discursive systems, thus to posit that there is a pre-discursive (pure) materiality that cultural systems of meaning inscribe, is unthinkable on Butler's terms.
Prominent among postmodern thinkers, Jacques Derrida (1973) makes the epistemological claim that "nothing is outside the text," hence, there is nothing beyond our discursive systems of representation insofar as we can only know or think what is represented.
Discursive systems, in other words, are not fully within the control of linguistic beings and rather than reveal the world to us, they can just as well constrain what are possible objects of experience.
Indeed, our experiment generated a number of domain-specific hypotheses about genre, translation, and compositional practice in colonial Korea while raising important questions about studies of culture that bracket either the material or discursive systems of cultural objects from view.
For example, Butler (1990) asserts that the oppressive discursive systems, such as law, produce racial and gender identities and thus political organization around these identities only serves to reinforce the legitimacy of oppressive discourses such identities have no reality outside discourse.
Any discursive model of a biological system therefore involves uncertainty and incompleteness.
In this case, a new regional "steering committee" facilitated the integration and renewal of formerly isolated regional capabilities thus demonstrating the potential of a discursive renewal of regional innovation systems.
