[H]ow can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society? - discourse

Translation: Discourses are tactical elements or blocks operating in the field of force relations; there can exist different and even contradictory discourses within the same strategy; they can, on the contrary, circulate without changing their form from one strategy to another, opposing strategy.

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.

We can no longer maintain any distinction between music and discourse about music, between the supposed object of analysis and the terms of analysis.