Foucault rejects the idea that knowledge is neutral or that power is only held by kings or states. Instead, he argues they are joined (power/knowledge): power requires knowledge to function, and knowledge is produced within power relations to reinforce them.
Each society has its own "politics of truth"—the types of discourse it accepts and makes function as true.
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