by Sverre Raffnsøe, Marius Gudmand-Høyer, Morten S. Thaning
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.
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
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Uddrag fra bogen:
Politikens Håndbøger: Fransk Filosofi, Engagement og Struktur, redigeret af Poul Lübcke, (Denmark, Politikens Forlag A/S, 2004), pp. 286-298.
]]>Uddrag fra bogen:
Politikens Håndbøger: Fransk Filosofi, Engagement og Struktur, redigeret af Poul Lübcke, (Denmark, Politikens Forlag A/S, 2004), pp. 267-285.
]]>La notion de dispositif est déterminante dans l’analytique foucaldienne de la société. Et pourtant, son étude demeure négligée par la réception internationale. Après avoir discuté brièvement des difficultés rencontrées avec la traduction du terme de dispositif par Dreyfus et Rabinow dans Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, l’article développe une analytique sociale à partir de la pensée « dispositionelle » de Foucault. L’esquisse de l’histoire du terme de dispositif permettra, en outre, de mieux saisir la pertinence de son usage par Foucault.
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Raffnsøe, Sverre (2008) “Qu’est-ce qu’un dispositif? L’analytique sociale de Michel Foucault,”Symposium (Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy / Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale): Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 5.
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