power - knowledge

is not repressive but constitutive of our knowledge and truth.

Foucault suggests that rather than seeing power as repressive, we should look at power as the force that creates our knowledge and our truth for us.'

 captures two dimensions such that power is the nonformal element running beneath or between different forms of knowledge.

Power's precisely the nonformal element running between or beneath different forms of knowledge. That's why one talks about a microphysics of power. . . ..It's a different dimension from that of knowledge, although power and knowledge form concretely indivisible composites' (Deleuze Negotiations 97).

is a formula whereby knowledge relates to the forms, the visible, the utterable, in short the archive, whereas power relates to the play of forces, diagrams.

Thus Power delineates a second dimension that's irreducible to the dimension of Knowledge, even though they together produce concretely indivisible composites... but knowledge relates to forms, the Visible, the Utterable, in short to the archive, while power relates to forces, the play of forces, diagrams' (Deleuze Negotiations 92).

is the formula of power's workings whereby power is not a force wielded by one group over another but pervades accepted forms of knowledge, science, and truth.

is the idea 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.

We should admit . . . 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 . . . the subject who knows, the objects to be known and the modalities of knowledge must be regarded as so many effects of these fundamental implications of power/knowledge and their historical transformations (Foucault D&P 1977: 27-8).

is the notion that knowledge is not produced by the activity of the subject of knowledge but by the struggles that traverse it and thus determine its forms and possible domains.

In short, it is not the activity of the subject of knowledge that produces a corpus of knowledge, useful or resistant to power, but power/knowledge, the processes and struggles that traverse it and of which it is made up, that determines the forms and possible domains of knowledge' (Discipline and Punish 27, 28).

power knowledge, n.All

power knowledge