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Dispositif
Dispositif is a term used by the French intellectual Michel Foucault, generally to refer to the various institutional, physical, and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures which enhance and maintain the exercise of power within the social body.
Translation.
Dispositif is translated variously, even in the same book, as 'device', 'machinery', 'apparatus', 'construction', and 'deployment'.
Definition.
Foucault uses the term in his 1977 "The Confession of the Flesh" interview,
where he answers the question, "What is the meaning or methodological function for you of this term, apparatus (dispositif)?" as follows:
The German linguist Siegfried Jäger defines Foucault's "dispositif" as
The Danish philosopher Raffnsøe "advances the 'dispositive' (le dispositif) as a key conception in Foucault's work" and "a resourceful approach to the study of contemporary societal problems." According to Raffnsøe, "the dispositionally prescriptive level is a crucial aspect of social reality in organizational life,