Strategies for Waging Peace

Foucault is unhappy at the outset of “Society Must Be Defended”.¹ It is clear that the lecture as performance, with the assumed role as expert, was not to his liking, and that the preparation was getting in the way of the research itself. He speculates about the possibilities if

thirty or forty of us could get together in a room. I could tell you roughly what I’ve been doing, and at the same time have some contact with you, talk to you, answer your questions and so on, and try to rediscover the possibility of the exchange and contact that are part of the normal practice of research or teaching

(Foucault, 1997: p. 4; 2003b; p. 3)