What is most notable about de Ceateau’s parable is its underlying assumptions: that theory can be only linguistic theory, that that which is not language is separated from theory by an abyss, and that the uncertain knowledge we obtain about the distant ocean of practice must be essentially in the form of linguistic theory. According on an analogy with knowledge of discourse. All theory, whether about language or about those practices separated from language by an abyss, is necessarily an extension of linguistic theory. If we take seriously Charties’s appropriation of de Certeau’s epistemological parable, the logic of practices that are supposedly “not governed by the laws of the formation of discourses” are, paradoxically, knowable only to the extent that they can be parsed by means of a linguistic theoretical paradigm