File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_2000/foucault.0010, message 15


Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Matthew King <making-AT-yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: Abstract machines & Assemblages


On 8 Oct 2000 jav65-AT-bellsouth.net wrote:

> 	I would greatly appreciate your help in the following inquiry.
> Where in Foucault's body of work does he speak of "abstract machines"
> and "assemblages?"

The closest thing I can think of is "dispositif", variously translated as
"deployment" and "apparatus", which he uses in History of Sexuality
vol. I.

Matthew

 ---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
       "It was in the barbarous, gothic times when words had a meaning; 
                 in those days, writers expressed thoughts."
 ----------------------------(Anatole France)-------------------------------


   

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