Americans like Stanley Fish seem to stop a bit short of the pure Enlightenment end-state with Fish's (and Rorty's) attempts to define the rules as a community language game which is the only game in town...in which we conform to the expectations of the (typically academic) community so as to be able to use certain words in reference to ourselves such as "professor".

Unfortunately, this itself is based on a remythologisation of the 1960s as a dreamtime in which "we tried to be completely Enlightened and were left alone, marching up and down the square".

This myth has lasted much, much longer than the Sixties. I was around then and the reality was, quite simply, a widening of access to people who followed the rules for the most part. The representative figure was Adorno, who simply sought to continue to teach and do research under democratic conditions as opposed to Nazi conditions. The media figures were the rather few students who thought it was cute to reduce everything to everything else and break down all divisions between disciplines.

I conclude that as one term at one extreme of a continuum, power is power and has no part of knowledge, and knowledge isn't power, any more than hydrogen or oxygen are themselves water.

But that wasn't your question, it was whether power constructs knowledge and whether power as you feel creates meaning. I'd agree as long as you can apportion power between individual power and social power. In Kant, the social construction of reality accepted unquestioningly pre-enlightenment gives way to the power of the Enlightenment subject to actively create meaning (but only if he creates an intercommunicative meaning).

But: enough. I saw you on the New York Times discussion, your blog is very interesting, but at this point my contributions may be, with some justice, be perceived as spam. If you're doing time management using Internet filters, clearly you need to not have me waste it, or to perceive my contributions as a time sink. I shall wait for any reply if you wish to dialog.

Lukasz Tracz

This will be re-sent, here is a web blog you might use to train your staff, but as I read it, only proves that it doesn't matter what I write here. You simply don't listen, just copy and paste. Good luck with that.
http://blog.webcopyplus.com/2008/04/20/rogers-customer-service/"

Now I am just copying and pasting, I guess it is okay to do this. Learned from the best (Robbers Internet) (You pay, sign, and never receive)

Best of luck!

But it definitely looks great.

[ED: redacted author link because this comment feels spammy]