speaker's benefit

is the posture of uttering truths from a place outside of power.

to [claim to] utter truths and promise bliss' from a place outside of power

is the position of the intellectual who claims to speak for humanity, seemingly opposed to power but is really part of a larger deployment of modern power.

In the pose of the universal intellectual who speaks for humanity, the speaker solemnly appeals to the future which, he tells us, will surely be better. . . . . . .. But if truth and power are not externa! to each other as Foucault obviously will maintain, ways in which modem power operates. It masks itself by producing discourse, seemingly opposed to it but really part of a larger deployment of modern power ' (Dreyfus and Rabinow 130)

speaker's benefit, n.Definitions

speaker's benefit