Truth is produced socially through power-sanctioned mechanisms of validation.

Evidence

Truth isn’t outside power… Truth is a thing of this world; it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint … and it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth, its “general polities” of truth; that is, the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true; the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish “true” and “false” statements; the means by which each is sanctioned; and the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth; the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true. (Foucault 1980, 131) Let us summarize the main points of this argument. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 590

Categorization

• DEFINE: Foucault’s own definition of ‘regime of truth’ — the load-bearing concept for the module.
• DEEPTHINKING: This displaces truth from correspondence to social production — the paradigm-shifting move that the whole downstream field inherits.
• XREF: The definitional root the Islamophobia field relies on to argue that expert knowledge about Muslims functions as a truth-regime rather than neutral reportage. — connects to: Truth-bearing worldviews become instruments of organized barbarism once wielded as power.; Truth appeals serve a society that forces confession to enable persecution; Declarations create new social facts by describing desired changes as already true. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 550 (+1 more)