Re: grid of intelligibility

Kevin Turner wrote:

> are they so very different?
>
> the reason i asked about dreyfus and rabinow's rendering of dispositif 
> as  grid of intelligibility is that they state that a 'dispositif is, 
> of  course, a grid of analysis constructed by the historian' (121). as 
> such, a  dispositif is both an apparatus or deployment that is being 
> analysed, and  the means by which, and through which, such a 
> decipherment is carried out.


Might this just be taken to mean that 'dispositif' is a 'concept'?  It 
doesn't read to me as a definition of dispositif.
DM