My worry would be that tactical knowledge is still knowledge, whereas
Foucault seems to be suggesting it's the _use_ of that knowledge, i.e. its
transition into tactics, into practice that is important.
The original French:- (Dits et ecrits Vol III, p. 165 cf 'Il faut defendre
la societe', pp. 9-10)
"Appelons, si vous voulez, genealogie le couplage des connaissances erudites
et des memoires locales, couplage qui permet la constitution d'un savoir
historique des luttes et l'utilisation de ce savoir dans les tactiques
actuelles; ce sera donc la definition provisoire de ces genealogies que j'ai
essaye de faire au cours de ces dernieres annees"
I don't have Power/Knowledge, so can't verify the translation, but it would
seem important to note how erudite 'connaissances' [presumably specialised
knowledge, learned, scholarly knowledge] and local memories [presumably more
everyday common knowledge] allow the _constitution_ of historical knowledge
[nb, as _savoir_] of struggles [don't forget this, cf. the context in the
lecture course on race, war, struggle, etc.] and the utilisation of that
knowledge in present tactics.
That would seem to be the sense of the passage, with some attempt to
recontextualise it.
Stuart
Foucault seems to be suggesting it's the _use_ of that knowledge, i.e. its
transition into tactics, into practice that is important.
The original French:- (Dits et ecrits Vol III, p. 165 cf 'Il faut defendre
la societe', pp. 9-10)
"Appelons, si vous voulez, genealogie le couplage des connaissances erudites
et des memoires locales, couplage qui permet la constitution d'un savoir
historique des luttes et l'utilisation de ce savoir dans les tactiques
actuelles; ce sera donc la definition provisoire de ces genealogies que j'ai
essaye de faire au cours de ces dernieres annees"
I don't have Power/Knowledge, so can't verify the translation, but it would
seem important to note how erudite 'connaissances' [presumably specialised
knowledge, learned, scholarly knowledge] and local memories [presumably more
everyday common knowledge] allow the _constitution_ of historical knowledge
[nb, as _savoir_] of struggles [don't forget this, cf. the context in the
lecture course on race, war, struggle, etc.] and the utilisation of that
knowledge in present tactics.
That would seem to be the sense of the passage, with some attempt to
recontextualise it.
Stuart