
Dispositif
A Cartography
$140.38
- Paperback
514 pages
- Release Date
3 January 2024
Summary
A ground-breaking anthology that places dispositifs (“apparatuses”) at the center of contemporary thought.
Dispositif is one of the most prevalent yet elusive terms in contemporary thought. This comprehensive anthology brings together formative, seminal, and contemporary texts and visual applications to illuminate how central dispositifs are to contemporary theory. Greg Bird and Giovanbattista Tusa’s selection and placement of critical texts invite readers to explore common themes and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262544337 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262544334 |
| Author: | Greg Bird, Giovanbattista Tusa |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 514 |
| Release Date: | 3 January 2024 |
| Weight: | 709g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 178mm x 229mm |

Critics Review
“The anthology serves as a rallying cry, challenging the increasing inertia of the many individuals who are being seduced by the transhumanist dream of ‘engineers’ of today. Engaging with the concept of dispositif is one way to resist this mechanization, lest we become, in Marx’s words, ‘organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge objectified.’”
—Configurations
“[R]eaders are free to explore and wander at will, allowing the suggested pathways to be subverted and the internal narrative to be reorganized through interpretation…. [T]his collection of instances in which the dispositif appears, surfaces, and suggests itself under a plurality of disguises inscribes into the persistent Foucauldian question of the diagnoses of reality, and serves — as it should — as one of the many tools in the toolbox with which they can be performed.”
–Foucault Studies
“Dispositif: A Cartography makes an excellent case for [the] hermeneutical truism that to read a text involves reading countless other texts, and, what is more, it facilitates this process beautifully.”
—Krisis
Greg Bird
Greg Bird is Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is a contemporary social and political theorist. His first book, Containing Community, won the 2017 Symposium Book Award (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy).
Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist based at the Nova University of Lisbon in Portugal, where he coordinates the research program X-CENTRIC FUTURES. He is a coauthor, with Alain Badiou, of The End.
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