Political re-empowerment begins by reclaiming knowledge rather than by fighting

Evidence

Gaining a new self-awareness and tracing the sources of knowledge and memory means denouncing all the mystifications of history. If it reinserts itself into the web of knowledge, the nobility can become a force once more, and can establish itself as the subject of history. So if it wishes to become a historical force, that implies that it must, in the first instance, acquire a new self-awareness and reinsert itself into the order of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 4543

Categorization

• XREF: Previews Foucault’s later notion of subjugated knowledges and the retrieval of disqualified knowledge — central to the module toolkit. — connects to: Knowledge replaces royal wealth and force as the source of sovereignty.; The Ordinovista movement treated knowledge as revolutionary rather than as consent-building — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 579
• DEFINE: Defines what ‘regaining knowledge’ means as a political act against history’s mystifications.