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

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What Is the Difference Between Universals and Apparatus?

The sexual act was not perceived as an evil in ancient Greece, especially like in these texts, like the laws, Republic and so on. But instead, there's an immense anxiety surrounding how sex is to be deployed, how it is to be had. And then this brings us to another issue, like, we have to discern between universals and apparatuses. We cannot just say that sexuality is an apparatus, right? Even though it allows us to have very particular understandings of very particular dynamics in a social setting.

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