savoir, n.All

Savoir (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠knowledge that changes the knower: the process in which the subject is modified by what it comes to know, while building its object.

Savoir (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the implicit knowledge a whole society runs on — shared by its philosophers, its police and its shopkeepers — beneath anything printed in a science book.

Savoir (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a domain where the subject is always situated and dependent, never the title-holder — neither as transcendental activity nor as empirical consciousness.

Savoir (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what had to be in place before the great houses of internment could open: a knowledge that set madness against non-madness, order against disorder.