Discourse-theoretical perspectives on class, populism and participation. An interview with Nico Carpentier
Abstract
An interview with Nico Carpentier, that took place in June 2019, at the Garage Institute of Moscow, during Carpentier's visit to HSE-NRU. The interview starts with a series of issues related to the ontology of discourse theory, and the role of class in discourse theory.
This is then connected with the issue of populism, which has been prominent in discourse-theory-related research. In a second part, the role of participation, in particular in the media, is discussed, with attention for recent positive developments, connected to the logics of decentralization.
Part of the argument here is that participation has a normative dimension. The discussion then returns to discourse theory, with discussions on the limits of contingency, the translation of discourse theory into methodology, and the resistance against post-structuralist theory.