Militarized Knowledge and Academic Soldiers: Arming the University

If Michel Foucault is right that war is now “the motor behind institutions and order” and “a battlefront runs through the whole of society, continuously and permanently,” then we must try to understand what forces generate this permanent state of war and which side of the battle we want to be on, because, as Foucault insisted, “There is no such thing as a neutral subject.” If we are to heed Foucault’s warning that “We are all inevitably …