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

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