Power requires an economy of true discourses to function.
Evidence
Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power. This is true of all societies, but I think that in our society, this relationship among power, right, and truth is organized in a very particular way. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 42
Categorization
- XREF: This is the seed of biopolitics/regimes of truth later elaborated across Foucault and central to Islamophobia critique. — connects to: Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power; Discourse produces knowledge that shapes perceptions and enacts power — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 687; The fundamental form of power is defining reality — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 387 (+4 more)
Related
- Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power (similarity 0.88)
- Effective discourse that organizes power relations constitutes a regime of truth. (similarity 0.87)
- Discourse is a system through which knowledge becomes power over the known. (similarity 0.87)
- Discourse produces knowledge that shapes perceptions and enacts power (similarity 0.86)
- Power, right, and truth form an indissociable analytical triangle. (similarity 0.85)
- Each society has a regime of truth that determines what counts as true (similarity 0.84)
- Truth is produced socially through power-sanctioned mechanisms of validation. (similarity 0.83)
- Discourse constrains what can be thought about the Other (similarity 0.82)
- Knowledge created from a position of strength produces the object it claims to describe (similarity 0.82)
- Foucault replaces ideology with discourse because social statements are never simply true or false. (similarity 0.81)
- Postmodernism holds that truth claims are really bids for political power (similarity 0.81)
- Discourses persist beyond their origins and carry unexamined assumptions forward. (similarity 0.81)
- Foucault held that all knowledge is a product of discourse bound up with power. (similarity 0.81)
- Discourse operates as a strategic field of force-relations, not mere representation (similarity 0.81)
- Extreme Foucauldian premises reduce theory to passive consumption of discourse (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Discourse produces knowledge that shapes perceptions and enacts power
#expands(0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 687 - The fundamental form of power is defining reality
#corroborates(0.80) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 387 - Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy
#qualifies(0.80) - Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority
#qualifies(0.80) - Power and language are not disembedding mechanisms like money
#complicates(0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 66