Some knowledge forms are intrinsically resistant to being wielded as power
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 (
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At the heart of the procedures of discipline, it manifests the subjection of those who are perceived as objects and the objectification of those who are subjected. The superimposition of the power relations and knowledge relations assumes in the examination all its visible brilliance. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284 (
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I maintain that the obfuscation of the unique relationship between knowledge and power in modernity is itself a function of the discursive formations and not just intellectual shallowness. In order to better convey the force of this relationship, I begin with a problematic in Said’s conception of it, showing its unidirectionality. I argue that the relationship is not only dialectical, but that this dialectic proceeds in a circular fashion, amounting to what I have called in another context a dialectical wheel. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 33 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Knowledge is a form of appropriation by the for-itself; Reading symbolism to the second power reveals the mythical surrender of autonomy — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 149; Much human knowledge resists explicit prescription and can only be transmitted by example — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 281 (+14 more)
Broader Connections
- Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another
#contradicts(0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75 - The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism
#complicates(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284 - The knowledge-power relationship is circular, not unidirectional as Said held
#complicates(0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 33 - Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power
#complicates(0.80) - Knowledge created from a position of strength produces the object it claims to describe
#complicates(0.78) - Advanced societies conflate knowledge with decision-competence and truth with power
#complicates(0.77) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 634 - Mechanized knowledge creates monopolies that endanger freedom of thought
#complicates(0.75) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 1123 - Self-endorsed ideologies substitute for physical coercion in hierarchy
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