Strategic intelligibility forms a third logic distinct from epistemic coherence and sovereignty.

Evidence

Rather than trace the changing forms of this model, I want at least to outline a few aspects of it that deserve further attention in the study of Foucault’s writings during this period. In La Volonté de savoir, Foucault’s strategic model takes as its most central field of application power relations (and resistances ), that is to say, nondiscursive practices or the social field generally. It provides a model of strategic coherence, intelligibility, rationality that answers to what Foucault sometimes called the Jogi of strategies. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 15

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the strategic logic of force-relations from both the archaeological logic of knowledge and the juridical logic of sovereignty — a key tripartite distinction.

Related

• Knowledge is produced by strategic struggle rather than by human nature (similarity 0.80)
• Foucault proposed war as the model for understanding political power (similarity 0.80)
• Boulainvilliers read history to rediscover a primal rightful relationship of force (similarity 0.78)
• Discourse operates as a strategic field of force-relations, not mere representation (similarity 0.78)