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

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Gamben - Is Hegel a Good Philosopher?

Gamben was trying to figure out, what is the role of quote unquote positivity? It gets complicated because even contemporaneous to a Gamben, many of those French philosophers are using the term dispositif to mean different things or to try and explain different things. Even Leotard uses dispositif in almost a completely different way in that he actually reaffirms positivity. So there's actually this complete disagreement, both historically, I think, and contemporaneous to that French poststructural school who's trying to discern what the dispositif is.

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