Power, right, and truth form an indissociable analytical triangle.

Evidence

So we have the triangle: power, right, truth. In schematic terms, let us say that there is a traditional question, which is, I think, that of political philosophy. It can be formulated thus: How does the discourse of truth or, quite simply, philosophy—in the sense that philosophy is the discourse of truth par excellence—establish the limits of power’s right? That is the traditional question. Now the question I would like to ask is a question from below, and it is a very factual question compared to that traditional, noble, and philosophical question. My problem ts roughly this: What are the rules of right that power implements to produce discourses of truth? Or: What type of power is it that is capable of producing discourses of power that have, in a society like ours, such powerful effects? — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 42

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the power-right-truth triangle as the core analytical framework.
• XREF: This triangle prefigures and underlies the Islamophobia field’s concern with how regimes of truth make exclusion seem legitimate. — connects to: Each society has a regime of truth that determines what counts as true; Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority; Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75 (+2 more)

Related

• Each society has a regime of truth that determines what counts as true (similarity 0.89)
• Power requires an economy of true discourses to function. (similarity 0.85)
• Truth is produced socially through power-sanctioned mechanisms of validation. (similarity 0.82)
• Right is best understood as implementing subjugation rather than establishing legitimacy (similarity 0.79)
• Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority #contradicts (0.82)
• Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75
• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism #exemplifies (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
• Right is best understood as implementing subjugation rather than establishing legitimacy #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 45