"No matter how far back it goes, historical knowledge never finds nature, right, order, or peace. However far back it goes, historical knowledge discovers only an unending war...
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this has gotta be Foucault's Society Must Be Defended yeah?
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🛎️Ding ding ding 🛎️
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tbf i knew you'd been reading that a bit ago
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... or in other words, forces that relate to one another and come into conflict with one another, and the events in which relations of force are decided, but always in a provisional way. History encounters nothing but war...
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... but history can never really look down on this war from on high; history cannot get away from war, or discover its basic laws or impose limits on it, quite simply because war itself supports this knowledge, runs through this knowledge, and determines this knowledge....
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Knowledge is never anything more than a weapon in a war, or a tactical deployment within that war. War is waged throughout history, and through the history that tells the history of war...
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... And history, for its part, can never do any-thing more than interpret the war it is waging or that is being waged through it."
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Foucault?
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👇
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