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
> 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