Fw: quote

Below is a quote of the month from Clare O'Farrell's site - anyone fancy
interpreting it? Why does he reject ideology but nevertheless punctuates his
discourse with the term ideological/ideology?

Anthony


'This notion of the government of men by truth ... Elaborating this
notion means displacing things a little in relation to the now
overworn and tired theme of power-knowledge. For the history of
thought, my analysis was more or less organized, or revolved around,
the notion of dominant ideology. If you like, there are in general
two successive displacements: then, from the notion of dominant
ideology to that of power-knowledge and now, a second displacement
from the notion of knowledge-power to the notion of government by
the truth... Discarding the notion of knowledge-power the same way
as I discarded the notion of dominant ideology. Well, when I say
that, I am perfectly devastated (detruite) because it is obvious
that you don't discard something you thought yourself in the same
way as you discard what others have thought. As a consequence, I
will certainly be more indulgent with the notion of knowledge-power
than with that of dominant ideology, but it is up to you to
criticize me for that.'


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