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What guides Marxism then is a different model of society and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases the goal is exchange.
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society and act in accordance with that decision only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
On the other hand in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day both as a reality and as an issue it is clear that language assumes a new importance.