Sentence:  {1} An episteme is the “underground” grid or network which allows thought to organize itself. Each historical period has its own <WSD>episteme</WSD>. It limits the totality of experience, knowledge and truth, and governs each science in one period. / {2} Classical representation no longer needs a subject like royalty. It can only be made visible by its invisibility — by appearing in the mirror of representation. The true subject is never to be found in the table — or painting — as a historical subject of life, labour and language. The classical <WSD>episteme</WSD> did not isolate a specific domain proper to man./ Axiom: In the classical <WSD>episteme</WSD> the subject is bound to escape its own representation. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.