Discourse about alien cultures self-perpetuates without censorship

Evidence

In other words, we have to do with what Foucault, in another connection, has called “an incitement to discourse.” Very different from a simple interventionary censorship, the intellectual regulation of discourse about distant and alien cultures positively and affirmatively encourages more of itself. This is why it has persisted despite changes taking place in the world, and this is why it has continued to draw recruits to its service. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Said borrows and explains Foucault’s ‘incitement to discourse’ as productive regulation rather than prohibition.
• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s standing interest in how institutional regimes sustain themselves without direct coercion.