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The Evolution Of Postmodern Thought | Helen Pluckrose

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The Foucaultian Power Knowledge

The power knowledge is both constructed and perpetuated by ways of talking about things. The categories that we use to understand things like fact and fiction, reason and emotion are false. They operate in the service of power,. need to be examined, broken down and complicated. Language is immensely powerful and it is used to construct oppressive social realities. There is no way of obtaining objective truth. Everything is culturally constructed. Society is dominated by systems of power and privilege that people just accept as common sense. None of them is right or superior to any other. To find the Foucaultian power knowledge, invert the Derradyian binaries and empower the Lyotardian mini narratives. This is

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