What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

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Answers Bad Being Between Body Brings Class Ends Exercise Institutions Instrument Kind Knowledge New New Kind Own People Power Provides Relationships Short Those Two

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