discourse

Discourse
> in its Foucauldian version [discourse] is a set of relations of heterogeneous materiality, that recursivley produces obects, subjects, knowledges, powers, distributions of power. Discourse is productive. At the same time it sets limits to what is possible or knowable. (Law, 2004, p. 159)

Reference
Law, J. (2004). //After method: Mess in social science research// (1st ed.). London; New York: Routledge.