Rearticulating the concept of the dispositive: combining STS and an analytics of government
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https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2018v23n1p32Keywords:
Dispositive, Michel Foucault, STS, Analytics of governmentAbstract
This article first elucidates the diverse meanings of the French notion of dispositifand contrasts it with the usages of “apparatus” (“appareil”) on the one hand and “assemblage” (“agencement”) on the other. The second part presents Foucault’s distinctive use of the concept of the dispositive. The argument is based on the thesis that Foucault’s notion of the dispositive is firmly anchored in an analytics of government, as it focuses on steering and regulating agentic forces and vital processes. In the last part I propose combining an analytics of government, following Foucault, with insights from science and technology studies (STS). I argue that this theoretical synthesis between STS and an analytics of government helps to correct the problems many accounts from political sociology and social and political theoryface in addressing transformations and changes in contemporary societies.Downloads
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AGAMBEN, Giorgio. O que é um dispositivo? Outra Travessia Revista de Literatura, Ilha de Santa Catarina, v. 5, p. 9-16, 2005.
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ALTHUSSER, Louis. Ideologia e aparelhos ideológicos de Estado. Lisboa: Editorial Presença; Martins Fontes, 1980.
ALTHUSSER, Louis. Sobre a reprodução. Petrópolis: Vozes, 1999.
ANDERSON, Ben. Encountering affect: capacities, apparatuses, conditions. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
ASDAL, Kristin et al. The technologies of politics. Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, Copenhagen, v. 16, p. 5-10, 2008.
BARAD, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
THOMAS LEMKE | Rearticulando o Conceito de Dispositivo 59
BARRY, Andrew. Material politics: disputes along the pipeline. Oxford: WileyBlackwell, 2013.
BEHRENT, Michael C. Foucault and technology. History and Technology, London, v. 29, n. 1, p. 54-104, 2013.
BENNETT, Jane. Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
BRAUN, Bruce. Environmental issues: inventive life.Progress in Human Geographyvol. 32, n. 5, p. 667-679, 2008.
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BUSSOLINI, Jeffrey. What is a dispositive? Foucault Studies, Denmark, v. 10, p. 85-107, 2010.
COOLE, Diana. Agentic capacities and capacious historical materialism: thinking with new materialisms in the political sciences. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, London, v. 41, n. 3, p. 451-469, 2013.
CUDWORTH, Erika; HOBDEN, Stephen. Liberation for straw dogs? Old materialism, new materialism, and the challenge of an emancipatory posthumanism. Globalizations, Helsinki, v. 12, n. 1, p. 134-148, 2015.
DELEUZE, Gilles. What is a dispositive? In: ARMSTRONG, Timothy J. (Ed.). Foucault: philosopher. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. p. 159-68.
DELEUZE, Gilles; GUATTARI, Félix. Kafka, por uma literatura menor. Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 1977.
DELEUZE, Gilles; GUATTARI, Félix. Mil platôs: capitalismo e esquizofrenia. São Paulo: Editora 34, 1997.
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ELDEN, Stuart. Foucault: the birth of power. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017.
ELDEN, Stuart. Foucault’s last decade. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2016.
FOUCAULT, Michel. A arqueologia do saber. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 2008a.
FOUCAULT, Michel. A hermenêutica do sujeito. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006a.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Dits et Ecrits: vol II. Paris: Gallimard, 1994.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Do governo dos vivos: curso dado no Collège de France (1979- 1980). São Paulo: WMF Martins Fontes, 2014.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Em defesa da sociedade: curso no Collège de France (1975-1976). São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 1999.
FOUCAULT, Michel. História da sexualidade I: a vontade de saber. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal, 1988.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Nascimento da biopolítica: curso dado no Collège de France (1978-1979). São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2008b.
FOUCAULT, Michel. O poder psiquiátrico: curso dado no Collège de France (1973- 1974). São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006b.
FOUCAULT, Michel. O sujeito e o poder. In: DREYFUS, Hubert; RABINOW, Paul. Michel Foucault, uma trajetória filosófica: para além do estruturalismo e da hermenêutica. Rio de Janeiro: Forense Universitária, 1995. p. 231-49.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Segurança, território, população: curso dado no Collège de France (1977-1978). São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2008c.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Sobre a história da sexualidade. In: MACHADO, Roberto (Org.). Microfísica do poder. Rio de Janeiro: Edições Graal, 1979. p. 243-76.
FOUCAULT, Michel. Vigiar e punir: nascimento da prisão. Petrópolis: Vozes, 2007.
GARSKE, Pia. What’s the ‘matter’? Der Materialitätsbegriff des ‘New Materialism’ und dessen Konsequenzen für feministisch-politische Handlungsfähigkeit. Prokla, [S. l.], v. 44, p. 111-129, 2014.
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Basic writings. New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
HIRSCHMAN, Albert O. The passions and the interests: political arguments for capitalism before its triumph. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.
JOHNSON, Elizabeth et al. After the anthropocene. Politics and geographic inquiry for a new epoch. Progress in Human Geography, London, v. 38, n. 3, p. 439-456, 2014.
LATOUR, Bruno. Jamais fomos modernos: ensaio de antropologia simétrica. Rio de Janeiro: Editora 34, 1994.
LEGG, Stephen. Assemblage/apparatus. Using Deleuze and Foucault. Area, London, v. 43, n. 2, p. 128-133, 2011.
LEMKE, Thomas. An indigestible meal? Foucault, governmentality and state theory. Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, Denmark, v. 15, p. 43-64, 2007.
LEMKE, Thomas. Foucault, governamentalidade e crítica. São Paulo: Editora Filosófica Politeia, 2017.
LEMKE, Thomas. New materialisms: Foucault and the ‘government of things’. Theory, Culture & Society, London, v. 32, n. 4, p. 3-25, 2015.
MARRES, Noortje; LEZAUN, Javier. Materials and devices of the public. An introduction. Economy and Society, London, v. 40, n. 4, p. 489-509, 2011.
MEIßNER, Hanna. Feministische Gesellschaftskritik als onto-epistemologisches Projekt. In: BATH, Corinna et al. (Ed.). Geschlechter Interferenzen. Wissensformen – Subjektivierungsweisen – Materialisierungen. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2013. p. 163-208.
MITCHELL, Timothy. The limits of the state: beyond statist approaches and their critics. American Political Science Review, Baltimore, v. 85, n. 1, p. 77-96, 1991.
MOL, Annemarie. Mind your plate! The ontonorms of Dutch dieting. Social Studies of Science, London, v. 43, n. 3, p. 379-396, 2013.
MOL, Annemarie. Ontological politics. In: LAW, John; HASSARD, John (Ed.). Actor network theory and after. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. p. 74-89.
MONTAG, Warren. Althusser and his Contemporaries: Philosophy’s Perpetual War. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
NIMMO, Richie. Governing Non-Humans. Knowledge, Sanitation and Discipline in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century British Milk Trade. Distinktion. Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, vol. 9, n. 1, p. 77-97, 2008.
RABINOW, Paul. Anthropos today. Reflections on modern equipment. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.
REY, Alain (Ed.). Dictionnaire historique de la langue française. Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert, 2006.
THOMPSON, Charis. Making parents: the ontological choreography of reproductive technologies. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
WAKEFIELD, Stephanie; BRAUN, Bruce. Governing the resilient city. Environment and planning. Society and Space, Genova, v. 32, n. 1, p. 4-11, 2014.
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LEMKE, Thomas. Rearticulating the concept of the dispositive: combining STS and an analytics of government. Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais, Londrina, v. 23, n. 1, p. 32–62, 2018. DOI: 10.5433/2176-6665.2018v23n1p32. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/33885. Acesso em: 4 nov. 2024.
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