Quote: "Knowledge is created not by the act of observing, Foucault says, but through relations...between institutions, economic and social processes, behavior patters, systems of norms, techniques, types of classification, modes of characterization; and these relations are not present in the object."
Question: Would you agree that knowledge is solely based off of relations? Or do you think it is a combination of observing and relations?
I believe it's more of a combination. Relation plays a big part when it comes to learning and actually receiving knowledge but observation also plays a big part as well. I find myself remembering things a lot more when I relate it to my life.
ReplyDeleteI believe it is a combination of both. I think that observation provides a baseline for knowledge, but in order to make sense of what we observe and to relate it to the grander scheme of things, we need discourse and the relationships that develop from it.
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