Regime of truth
From Geography
Michel Foucault prefers not to use the term truth itself but "Regimes of Truth". In his historical investigations he found truth to be something that was itself a part of, or embedded within, a given power structure. Truth for Foucault is also something that shifts through various episteme throughout history (Foucault, 1970). This challenges the idea that thruth is Foucault wielded by people by way of "episodic" or "sovereign" acts of domination, instaed he thinks of it as dispersed and pervasive (Gaventa, 2003).
“’Truth’ is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A ‘regime of truth’”(Foucalt, 1980, p.133).
Foucault identifies five thraits in the creation of thruth in the western society: the centering of truth on scientific discourse, accountability of truth to economic and political forces, the "diffusion and consumption" of truth via societal apparatuses, the control of the distribution of truth by "political and economic apparatuses and issue of a whole political debate and social confrontation. Because of these traiths, he sees that the majority is controlled by the political and economic forces of society. This leads up to his vision that intellectual with political problems must not be seen in terms of "science" and "ideology" but in terms of "truth"and "power" (Durrant, 2010).
== References ==
- Durrant, D. (2010). Regime of truth. Found 14 september 2011, at http://ddrrnt.amplify.com/2010/08/15/regime-of-truth-michel-foucault-on-truth-and-power/
- Foucault, M. (1970). The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. New York: Vintage Books
- Foucault, M. (1980). Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972–1977. New York: Pantheon.
- Gaventa, J. (2003). Foucault: power is everywhere. Found 14 september 2011, at http://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/foucault-power-is-everywhere/
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