Abstract: This article advances the ‘dispositive’ (le dispositif) as a key conception in Foucault’s work. As developed in his annual lectures in 1978 and 1979, the dispositive represents a crucial constituent of societal analysis on par with the familiar analytics of power/knowledge and the governmentality perspective – indeed it forms a lesser known intermediary between these. Foucault’s dispositional analysis articulates a history of connected social technologies that we have constructed to relate to each other. Expounding these points, the article distinguishes various dispositional prototypes and develops key ‘socio-ontological’ implications of the analysis. Reinstating the proper analytical status of the dispositive contributes to the reception of the important notion; the interpretation of Foucault’s entire oeuvre; and a resourceful approach to the study of contemporary societal problems.
Note: The present working paper represents an earlier version of our article “Foucault’s dispositive: The perspicacity of dispositive analytics in organizational research”, reviewed and published
by Organization (Sept. 17, 2014; DOI: 10.1177/1350508414549885). We have chosen to distribute it since this paper, compared to the later, thoroughly revised article, presents more details pertaining to Foucault’s use of the dispositive as an analytical concept, as well as a number of the more general implications of this type of historico-philosophical social analytics.
Udenfor er afgørende – Værdiskabelsens nye grundbetingelser og erhvervsøkonomiens status.
Kapitel fra antologien Kapitalismens ansigter, skrevet sammen med Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth.
Thomas Lopdrup-Hjorth & Sverre Raffnsøe: “Udenfor er afgørende” fra Morten Raffnsøe-Møller, Mikkel Thorup, Thomas Vinther Larsen & Ejvind Hansen (eds.) Kapitalismens Ansigter, Forlaget Philosophia, 2012. pp. 56-74.
Tak til Forlaget Philosophia for tilladelse til at uploade her, og på min side på Academia.edu.
]]>
Sverre Raffnsøe (1999) Historie- eller diskursanalyse? En introduktion til Foucaults Les mots et les choses og L’archéologie du savoir, Faggruppen for filosofi/videnskabsteori, Roskilde Univeritetscenter
COS-rapport nr. 4/1999
ISSN 1395-0657
Sverre Raffnsøe – Historie eller Diskursanalyse
Follow me on Academia.edu
Postmodernismen tager sit udgangspunkt i Lyotards bog fra 1979 om den “postmoderne” tilstand, idet udtrykket “det moderne” henviser til den måde at tænke på, som kendetegner tiden efter oplysningstiden. Inden for det moderne har der været en tendens til at erstatte religionens og den klassiske metafysiks “store fortællinger” med videnskabelige eller ideologiske sekulariserede fortællinger, herunder den store fortælling om oplysningen som en historisk bevægelse mod sandhed og frigørelse. Alle disse fortællinger er i dag døde, og postmodernisterne griber derfor tilbage til en anden tendens inden for modernismen (og traditionen i øvrigt), nemlig tendensen til at fokusere på det individuelle, det opsplittede og det foreløbige. Samtidig stilles der spørgsmål ved, om vore symboler – eller i det mindste det videnskabelige sprog – er i stand til at gengive virkeligheden. Dette benyttes til en analyse og kritik af videnssamfundet (Lyotard), forbrugersamfundet (Baudrillard) og etikken (Lipovetsky).
Kapitel fra Politikens Håndbøger: Fransk Filosofi, Engagement og Struktur, redigeret af Poul Lübcke, (Denmark, Politikens Forlag A/S, 2004) 286-298.
Indhold:
Lyotard: Det Postmoderne
Poststrukturalismen er en samlebetegnelse for tankegangen hos en ny generation af filosoffer bestående af Foucault, Derrida og Deleuze, der i anden halvdel af 1960’erne viderefører det strukturalistiske opgør med den humanistiske tradition, samtidig med at de kritiserer strukturalismens idé om at kunne erkende almengyldige, ahistoriske strukturer.Kapitel om Foucault, Derrida og Deleuze fra Politikens Håndbøger: Fransk Filosofi, Engagement og Struktur, redigeret af Poul Lübcke, (Denmark, Politikens Forlag A/S, 2004) 217-285.
Indhold:
Poststrukturalismen: Kontekst, Forskel og Singularitet
Foucault: Filosofiens historicitet
Derrida: Idealitetens transcendentale historicitet
Deleuze: Filosofiens immanente flugtveje
Download PDF ved at trykke på billedet
]]>

Management & Organizational History
In the context of an ongoing change, management is required to take the form of a leadership that must be reignited over and over again. The article examines a new art of leadership that may be viewed as an attempt to keep up with these challenges and stay ahead of time. It emerges from a pilgrimage leadership learning laboratory on the road to Santiago de la Compostela. This moving lab creates situations of extraordinary intensity that border on hyperreality and force the leader to find him/herself anew on the verge of him/herself. Conceived as pilgrimage, leadership moves ahead of time as it reaches into and anticipates a future still unknown. In this setting, anticipatory affects and the virtual take up a predominant role. As it emerges here, leadership distinguishes itself not only from leadership in the traditional sense, but also from management and governmentality.
Available via Management & Organizational History
Sverre Raffnsøe & Dorthe Staunæs (2014) “Learning to stay ahead of time: moving leadership experiences experimentally”, Management & Organizational History, 9:2, 184-201,
DOI: 10.1080/17449359.2014.891794

The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy & Organization Studies
Along with authors Matias Møl Dalsgaard (Aarhus University) and Marius Gudmand-Høyer (Copenhagen Business School), I have written a chapter on the Danish philosopher of existence and theologian Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). The handbook titled The Oxford Handbook of Process Philosophy & Organization Studies (Oxford, Oxford University Press 2014) is edited by Jenny Helin, Tor Hernes, Daniel Hjorth and Robin Holt, and is available via most major bookstores, including Amazon.
]]>
Forskningsprojekterne ”Den humane vending” og ”Humanomics” undersøgerHumanistisk forskning har en lang tradition for tværfaglighed
og eksperimenter med nye krydsdiscipliner; og de to projekter ønsker at
kortlægge og diskutere det aktuelle billede af denne import og eksport
mellem videnskaberne i forhold til faglig kundskab, teorier og metoder.
Hele årsskriftet kan hentes her
Suggested citation: Raffnsøe, Stjernfelt, Raffnsøe-Møller, Budtz Pedersen: “En ny agenda for humanvidenskaberne”, VILLUM FONDENs og VELUX FONDENs Årsskrift (2012), pp. 72-77.
]]>
Si l’on peut parler d’homme normal […]
c’est parce qu’il existe des hommes normatifs,
pour qui il est normal de faire craquer les normes
et d’en instituer de nouvelles.
Canguilhem: Le normal et le pathologiquer
Suggested citation:
Raffnsøe, Sverre “Order Ordealed, Norms and Social Coherence in the Age of Law” in Vincent F. Hendricks and Jesper Ryberg (eds.) Readings in Philosophy and Science Studies, Vol. 1. Roskilde: Roskilde University 2002, pp. 120-146.
Also available via: http://cbs.academia.edu/SverreRaffns%C3%B8e
]]>
This paper provides an outline of my dissertation with the title Coexistence Without Common Sense, Akademisk Forlag,
Download: The Rise of the Network Society
Suggested citation:
Raffnsøe, Sverre: The Rise of the Network Society – An outline of the dissertation Coexistence without common sense. MPP Working Paper No. 24/2003, Copenhagen, Copenhagen Business School, December 2004.
]]>