In the parlance of contemporary critical theory — often a barbaric dialect, but sometimes a useful one — Turner invented the "discourse" of sunsets.
More precisely, De Quincey invented the discourse of recreational drug use: the whole way of thinking about drug-taking as a hobby and an escape into what Baudelaire, writing about drugs in 1858, was to call our "artificial paradises".
Along the way, it can also fairly be said that White helped to invent the discourse of modern homosexuality as the co-writer of "The Joy of Gay Sex" in 1977 and the writer of "States of Desire: Travels in Gay America" in 1980, which mapped the brave new post-Stonewall world of the late '70s.
Polish composer Witold Lutosławski may well not have approved of my attempt to talk about his Third Symphony, one of the few postwar pieces that managed to invent a discourse that's at once a rejection of symphonic conventions yet is also a bracing renewal of the idea of "the symphony".
He contrived delightful miniature comedies and dramas, excelling in the rapid characterization of his actors, sometimes by deft sketches of their appearance or indications of their gestures and always by the expressive discourse he invented for them.
The goal will be to understand how those involved in anti-racist and anti-fascist struggles have invented, created, and practiced discourses and actions that attempt to resist racism and fascism, and to evaluate their merits and weaknesses.
With reference to international development, Escobar (1984, 1995) noted that the "Third World" was actually invented by the West through discourses of (under development, and this discovery created a field of intervention through which developed countries and their associated institutions exercised tremendous "power" over the Third World [ 13, 14].
In Nietzschean fashion, Foucault exposes history conceived as the origin and development of an identical subject, e.g., "modernity," as a fiction modern discourses invent after the fact.
The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse and dreary discourse would need to be invented".
As Pierre Force notes in his essay, Rousseau seems to have invented the psychological notion of "identification" in the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, where identification serves as the basis for the central, paradoxical notion of "pity".
Kyoto School philosophy, therefore, should be understood neither as Buddhist thought forced into Western garb, nor as universal discourse (which the West happened to have invented or discovered) dressed up in Japanese garb.
