What Is a Dispositif? === > [!tldr] Tags > #machine #dispositif #Foucault #cat/litterature #type/journalArticle > [!info] Meta Data >**FirstAuthor**:: [[Deleuze, Gilles]] ~ > **Title**:: What Is a Dispositif? > **Year**:: 1992 > **Citekey**:: [[1992_deleuze]] > **itemType**:: journalArticle > **Journal**:: ** > **Pages**:: 6 > **ISSN**:: > > [!Cite] > Deleuze, G. (1992). _What Is a Dispositif?_ 6. [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-what-is-a-dispositif](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-what-is-a-dispositif) > > %%[@1992_deleuze]%% > **URL**:: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-what-is-a-dispositif . > > **Related**:: . > > **Attachment**:: [Deleuze - What Is a Dispositif.pdf](zotero://open-pdf/library/items/2W3F4RKY). --- > [!important] Synthesis > **Contribution**:: > > [!Abstract] > > Foucault's philosophy is often presented as an analysis of concrete “dispositifs” or apparatuses. But what is an apparatus? First of all, it is a skein, a multilinear whole. It is composed of lines of different natures. The lines in the apparatus do not encircle or surround systems that are each homogenous in themselves, the object, the subject, language, etc., but follow directions, trace processes that are always out of balance, that sometimes move closer together and sometimes farther away. Each line is broken, subject to changes in direction, bifurcating and forked, and subjected to derivations. Visible objects, articulable utterances, forces in use, subjects in position are like vectors or tensors. Thus the three main instances Foucault successively distinguishes - Knowledge, Power and Subjectivity - by no means have contours that are defined once and for all but are chains of variables that are torn from each other. Foucault always finds a new dimension or a new line in a crisis. Great thinkers are somewhat seismic; they do not evolve but proceed by crises or quakes. Thinking in terms of moving lines was Herman Melville's operation: fishing lines, diving lines, dangerous, even deadly lines. There are lines of sedimentation, Foucault says, but also lines of "fissure" and "fracture." Untangling the lines of an apparatus means, in each case, preparing a map, a cartography, a survey of unexplored lands - this is what he calls "field work." One has to be positioned on the lines themselves; and these lines do not merely compose an apparatus but pass through it and carry it north to south, east to west or diagonally. >> --- # Note. --- # Annotations%% begin annotations %% %% end annotations %% %% Import Date: 2024-02-07T22:22:04.127+01:00 %%