ABSTRACT
The old clichéd saying, “knowledge is power,” has acquired a new potency in recent years. For nearly a century, it was fashionable to study how interests and material forces of history shaped knowledge. The world that has come into being in the aftermath of World War II has gradually reversed the relationship. It has forced us to recognize that dominance is now exercised less through familiar organized interests: class relations, colonialism, military-industrial complexes, multinational corporations, and the nation-states. Dominance is now exercised mainly through the categories that are embedded in systems of knowledge.
