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    Foucault defined a dispositif as the mechanisms and structures of knowledge that maintain the exercise of power in society, including institutions, physical structures, and administrative systems. A dispositif can encompass anything that influences human behavior, opinions, or discourse, such as prisons, schools, factories, language, and technology. The definition has been expanded to include any object or concept that can control or determine how humans act and think.

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    Foucault defined a dispositif as the mechanisms and structures of knowledge that maintain the exercise of power in society, including institutions, physical structures, and administrative systems. A dispositif can encompass anything that influences human behavior, opinions, or discourse, such as prisons, schools, factories, language, and technology. The definition has been expanded to include any object or concept that can control or determine how humans act and think.

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    Foucault defined a dispositif as the mechanisms and structures of knowledge that maintain the exercise of power in society, including institutions, physical structures, and administrative systems. A dispositif can encompass anything that influences human behavior, opinions, or discourse, such as prisons, schools, factories, language, and technology. The definition has been expanded to include any object or concept that can control or determine how humans act and think.

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    Foucault

    Dispositif

    What is?
    the various institutional, physical, and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures which enhance and maintain the exercise of power within the social body (wikipedia)

    What is?
    "Further expanding the already large class of Foucauldian apparatuses, I shall call an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings. Not only, therefore, prisons, madhouses, the panopticon, schools, confession, factories, disciplines, judicial measures, and so forth (whose connection with power is in a certain sense evident), but also the pen, writing, literature, philosophy, agriculture, cigarettes, navigation, computers, cellular telephones and--why not--language itself, which is perhaps the most ancient of apparatuses--one in which thousands and thousands of years ago a primate inadvertently let himself be captured, probably without realizing the consequences that he was about to face. (agamben)

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