power/knowledge

According to Foucault, the form of power developed in the modern world that, rather than being repressive, is productive of' relations and subjectivities. It tends to be decentralized and language-based. This idea stresses the role of professional and academic disciplines in the production of the systems of thought by which society is governed. Power/knowledge operates everywhere to produce truth, reality, and normality. Power is not considered a commodity held by one group at the expense of another but a feature of all human interactions in everyday contexts.