Therefore, to describe a discursive formation, Foucault also focuses on expelled and forgotten discourses that never happen to change the discursive formation.

Today, for critical theories as ditferent as Marxism and post/ modernism, know thy discursive formations:

Metaphysics here underpins a discursive formation of the subject, of subjection.

Much recent historical work, notably Michel Foucault's, has stressed the importance of investigating the discursive formations through which knowledge is organized.

A dominant discourse is a winning discursive formation.

A discursive formation is defined as the regularities that produce such discourse.

As a philosopher, Foucault applied the discursive formation in the analyses of large bodies of knowledge, such as political economy and natural history.

An n-glossic (amalgamation of many [n] codes) situation was observed in the discursive formation of kirtana.

In Michel Foucault, interdiscourse is differences and equalities across discursive formations.

Foucault's analysis then turns towards the organized dispersion of statements, which he calls discursive formations.