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What is an Apparatus?
Just a heads up on the English translation of Giorgio Agamben’s What is an Apparatus? hitting the stands next month.
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Agamben’s apparatus
Giorgio Agamben’s “What is an Apparatus?” is an extraordinary essay. It is in a league with those essays which one ends up remembering for ever because the act of reading them results in a permanent...
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Economization and marketization
In their article “Economization, part 1: shifting attention from the economy towards processes of economization” [ (2009), Economy and Society 38(3): 369 - 398], Koray Çalışkan and Michel Callon...
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An apparatus for apparatchiks
Are apparatuses good or bad? But first, what is an apparatus? The shortest and very helpful definition comes from Giorgio Agamben’s essay, “What is an Apparatus?“ I shall call an apparatus literally...
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Subjectification
Andrew Huang‘s Doll Face video could serve as a pretty good illustration of what Giorgio Agamben seems to have in mind when (after Foucault) he talks about subjectification, the configuration of...
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Deleuze on apparatuses
From “What is a Dispositif?” by Gilles Deleuze: Two important consequences ensue for a philosophy of apparatuses. The first is the repudiation of universals. A universal explains nothing; it, on the...
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