Foucault’s discursive regime closely resembles Hall’s notion of ideological dominance

Evidence

What Foucault would talk about is the setting in place, through the institutionalization of a discursive regime, of a number of competing regimes of truth and, within these regimes, the operation of power through the practices he calls normalization, regulation, and surveillance. Now perhaps it’s just a sleight of hand, but the combination of regime of truth plus normalization/regulation/surveillance is not all that far from the notions of dominance in ideology that I’m trying to work with. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 723

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• DEFINE: Clarifies both Foucault’s ‘regime of truth’ and how Hall maps ideology onto it, useful for uniting two theoretical vocabularies.

Related

• Foucault’s power theory cannot assess changing balance of forces without ideology (similarity 0.88)

Broader Connections

• Dominant ideology recruits the dominated by neutralizing rival ideologies’ antagonism #corroborates (0.70)
• Ideological unity forms through connotative condensation and an axial interpellation #expands (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 629
• The discursive perspective reintroduces non-unitary subjectivity that structuralism had abolished #corroborates (0.55)
• Foucault’s resistance lacks grounding because he abandons ideology #complicates (0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 723