...is always power. Here it is worth quoting Foucault (1977) directly: [W]e should abandon [that] ... tradition that allows us to imagine that knowledge can exist only where power-relations are suspended and that knowledge can develop only outside its injunctions, its demands...

...time, or tools for intense reflection. As Foucault (19773, 27) suggests, in Discipline and Punish, "we should abandon a whole tradition that allows us...outside its injunctions, its demands and its interests." On the contrary, as he goes on to suggest, power produces knowledge; they are directly implicated in...

...Foucault offers a similar analysis of the relationship between power, violence, and knowledge; he says, "[W]e should abandon a whole tradition that allows...outside its injunctions, its demands and its interests . . . power and knowledge directly imply one another. . . . [T]here is no power relation without the...

...analysis, deliberations and production of knowledge. Box 11.14 Some quotes on knowledge and power "Perhaps we should abandon a whole tradition that allows us...outside its injunctions, its demands and its interests. Perhaps we should abandon the belief that power makes mad and that, by the same token, the renunciation...

...historical time both articulate and are embedded in social power. As Foucault makes clear, we must "abandon a whole tradition that allows us to imagine that knowledge can exist only where power relations are suspended and that knowledge can develop only outside its injunctions, its demands...

...extension of power involves the production of knowledges by which people can be known and understood: We should abandon a whole tradition that allows us...outside its injunctions, its demands and its interests . . . We should admit rather that power produces knowledge . . . that power and knowledge directly...