Power requires officially validated knowledge, not merely ignorance

Evidence

It is one thing our knowing about the corrupt practices that the power elite routinely engage in; it is another for that knowledge to be officially validated. The space that power needs to manage reality is disappearing. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1566

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Societal needs, not reality, determine whether knowledge counts as accurate. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam: How the Media and the…, 356; 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 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern power and knowledge are conceptually inseparable and copresent #corroborates (0.85)
• The knowledge-power relationship is circular, not unidirectional as Said held #corroborates (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 33
• Societal needs, not reality, determine whether knowledge counts as accurate. #responds-to (0.80) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 356
• Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75
• No genuine knowledge can be derived from a state of ignorance #corroborates (0.80) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1077
• Knowledge out of proportion to real forces is invalid despite correctness. #complicates (0.78) — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 72
• Advanced societies conflate knowledge with decision-competence and truth with power #corroborates (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 634
• Undifferentiated power conflates truth with decision-making authority #complicates (0.72)
• Narrow concepts of legal validity fail to prevent official abuse of power #qualifies (0.72) — HLA Hart, The Concept of Law (Clarendon Law…, 502
• Legitimate government conceives power as a mutually observed trust #complicates (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1182
• Modern science grounds truth rules in expert consensus, not transcendental authority #qualifies (0.72) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 248