The knowledge-power relationship is circular, not unidirectional as Said held

Evidence

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

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 33
• XREF: connects to: Relations with the Other form a closed circle, never a progressing dialectic. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 936; Power requires officially validated knowledge, not merely ignorance — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1566