at the same time, his bold argument that the individual:
Power produces knowledge. . . . There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations. These "power-knowledge relations" are to be analyzed . . . not on the basis of a subject of knowledge who is or is not free in relation to the power system, but, on the contrary, the subject who knows, the objects to be known and the modalities of knowledge must be regarded as so many effects of these fundamental implications of power-knowledge and their historical transformations (Megill, 1985, 249).
This power-knowledge relationship forms a prison which both controls the person's behavior, leads him to conform and obey, robs him of his creativity, and yet exists and operates so subtly that the person does not even know that he is being controlled. Nevertheless, Foucault argues that the only way to b
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