[…] in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organised and redistributed by a certain…

“[…] in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organised and redistributed by a certain number of procedures whose role is to ward off its powers and dangers, to gain mastery over its chance events, to evade its ponderous, formidable materiality.”

–The Order ofDiscourse, Michel Foucault (1970)