These ‘systems of power’ are constructed in terms of rigid binaries which necessitate the location of subjectivity within the boundaries of these constructed categories or ‘truths’. In a postmodernist conceptualisation, Foucault’s ‘systems of power’ can be defined as ‘grand narratives’ which produce and assert hegemonic transcendental ‘truths’ that are seemingly self-reflexive and incompatible with the notion of legitimacy of multiple opposing and alternative discourses or ‘truths’. It’s not a matter of emancipating the truth from every system of power (which would be a chimera, for truth is already power) but of detaching the power of truth from the form of hegemony, social, economic and cultural, within which it operates at the present time (Foucault, 1976, p. “The problem is not changing people’s consciousness – or what’s in their heads – but the political, economic, institutional regime of the production of truth. In “Truth and Power”, an excerpt of a translated transcription of an interview with Michel Foucault by Alesandro Fontana and Pasquale Pasquino in June 1976 – published as “Intervista a Michel Foucault” in Microfiseca del Poetere in 1977 – Foucault argues, in relation to ‘systems of power’ and their consequent transcendental ‘truths’, that:
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