Discourses are metalanguages that instruct people how to live as people. They are best represented as great rivers of communication, performances propelled into movement by talk and text, enflamed by technologies like books, visual images, and other ‘media’, guided by procedures like rules and styles, and crowned by significant effects like particular subject positions or emotional states which establish the cultural importance of a discourse at gut level, and allow it to kick in

Thrift “ Knowing Capitalism “ The Joshua and Genesis Discourses