Undermining the idea that the meaning in a political action are placed somewhere else in, an instrumental reason, and that this “other” meaning is defining the value of the action, Foucault regards himself antistrategic.
In his own texts though, he is using strategic in different ways. Ali Rizvi suggests three distinct meanings of strategic in Foucault’s usage:
“1) Strategic as related to the space of freedom. In this sense Foucault contrasts strategic to what he calls “techne.”
2) Strategic in the sense of instrumentalism (explained earlier here).
3) Strategic as belonging to an ethos, certain value system. This belonging is strategic to the extent that one cannot give ultimate justification for it.”
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