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What is an Apparatus? Agamben's Conceptual Analysis of 'Dispositif'

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Claude Lebistross's Definition of Apparatus

The word apparatus functions the floating signifier in the sense that it re-oriented the structure around it of how we talk about power and its relation to knowledge. It's become a certain technological function to the apparatus. This describes for me what Foucaud was trying to get at in history of sexuality when he's describing how we need to respond to power.

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