An all-encompassing discourse-determinism erases class, gender, and all resistance.

Evidence

That this form of irrationalism should surface so centrally in the very book which is doubtless the most influential among radically inclined cultural theorists today should give us, I believe, some pause, but it should also help us to grasp some aspects of its enthusiastic reception and extremely widespread influence. For in one range of formulations, Said’s denunciations of the whole of Western civilization is as extreme and uncompromising as Foucault’s denunciations of the Western episteme or Derrida’s denunciations of the transhistorical Logos; nothing, nothing at all, exists outside epistemic Power, logocentric Thought, Orientalist Discourseno classes, no gender, not even history; no site of resistance, no accumulated projects of human liberation, since all is Repetition with Difference, all is corruption - specifically Western corruption - and Orientalism always remains the same, only more so with the linear accumulations of time. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 815

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s central project: Ahmad’s charge that discourse-first reading (Orientalism/foucault, Derrida) erases material/class structures. Also instantiates the strategic-essentialism/identity-performance bind on a collective scale. — connects to: Orientalism’s totalizing discourse critique erases all sites of resistance and liberation; Neoliberal rationality discursively erases stratification and power differences among speakers. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 323; Neoliberal erasure of class discourse captures struggles for bourgeois liberalism — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1374 (+3 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the ‘discourse-determinism’ target the reader wants pinpointed: a formulation where nothing exists outside Power/Discourse.

Broader Connections

• Orientalism’s totalizing discourse critique erases all sites of resistance and liberation #corroborates (0.95)
• Neoliberal rationality discursively erases stratification and power differences among speakers. #exemplifies (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 323
• Deconstruction blocks any fixed or global theory of feminism, gender, race, or class. #corroborates (0.85) — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 498
• Neoliberal erasure of class discourse captures struggles for bourgeois liberalism #exemplifies (0.80) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1374
• Deconstruction paradoxically requires political resistance to stay silent and unprogrammatic #responds-to (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 321
• Totalizing theoretical claims can erase the theorist’s professed comrades #exemplifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 373