Sentence(s): Double Legitimation?

"When we examine the current status of scientific knowledge - at a time when science seems more completely subordinated to the prevailing powers than ever before and, along with the new technologies, is in danger of becoming a major stake in their conflicts - the question of double legitimation, far from receding into the background necessarily comes to the fore. For it appears in its most complete form, that of reversion, revealing that knowledge and power are simply two sides of the same question: who decides what is, and who knows what needs to be decided?" - Jean-Francois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (1979, trans. 1984)