Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another

Evidence

Perhaps we should abandon the belief that power makes mad and that, by the same token, the renunciation of power is one of the conditions of knowledge. We should admit rather that power produces knowledge (and not simply by encouraging it because it serves power or by applying it because it is useful); that power and knowledge directly imply one another; that there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75

Categorization

• DEFINE: Here is the formal definition of the power-knowledge relation that underlies the whole panopticon analysis.
• XREF: Bears directly on how surveillance produces the very subject it claims to observe — the telescreen both records and shapes the watched citizen. — connects to: The table functioned simultaneously as an instrument of power and of knowledge — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 228; The modern concept of progress and individual development emerged from techniques of power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 243; The everyday examination is an overlooked origin of modern power-knowledge — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284 (+17 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75

Related

• Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it (similarity 0.84)
• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism (similarity 0.84)
• Knowledge created from a position of strength produces the object it claims to describe (similarity 0.83)
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power (similarity 0.82)
• The table functioned simultaneously as an instrument of power and of knowledge (similarity 0.82)
• Power requires officially validated knowledge, not merely ignorance (similarity 0.80)
• The everyday examination is an overlooked origin of modern power-knowledge (similarity 0.80)
• Power, right, and truth form an indissociable analytical triangle. (similarity 0.79)
• Panoptic power embeds within daily functions rather than constraining from without (similarity 0.79)
• Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority #expands (0.82)
• The fundamental form of power is defining reality #expands (0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 387
• Power shifts attribution of actions from the subject to the power-holder #expands (0.78)
• Objectivist truth served as philosophy’s safeguard against the intoxication of power #complicates (0.78) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2943
• Mutual trust cannot develop in unequal, nonreciprocal power relations #exemplifies (0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 477