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Bormann accounts for this incongruence by arguing that the meanings assigned to ballistic missile defense are not the result of some preexisting or objective technological capability or strategic reality, but instead are only assigned discursively through "a contextual framework or system of knowledge that has become accepted in the past as a set of rules upon which to judge present or future discourses as more meaningful and true than others" (p.
In similar manner to the notion of Goffman's 'spoiled identity' (1968) Rose, in the tradition of Foucault, pointedly illustrates that certain identities ('subject identities' in his terms), constituted discursively within particular regimes of power and 'truth', are subsequently authorised by those same regimes to inhabit social spaces and locations in which they access very particular sets of experiences.
Both involve a passage-from (both spatially, "coming", and discursively and ontologically, "becoming"), as if to say he is not, as he arrives, the self he was when he left, and that he more fully comes into his being: I am, here, what I was not, there.
 
 
 
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