regime of truth

is a historically specific mechanism which produces discourses that function as true in particular times and places.

A circular relation in which truth is linked with systems of power, which in their turn, produce and sustain truth, and the effects of power which truthinduces and which extend truth. The problem is not changing people'sconsciousnesses or what's in their heads but the political, economic,institutional regime of the production of truth. Knowledge linked to power,not only assumes the authority of 'the truth' but has the power to make itself true. A discursive formation sustains a regime of truth

is the type of discourse which a society accepts and makes function as true. It provides the mechanisms, techniques, and determines the status-bears who enable the particular distinctions between true and false statements in said society.

Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth: that is, the type 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... the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth... the status of those who are charged with saying what counts as true. (P/K 1980: 131)

regime of truth, n.Definitions

regime of truth