I’m trying to write an essay on systemic risks and crisis and I’ve read SO many texts now trying to explain the concept of “dispositif”, but all I’m getting from it is that it’s kind of the same thing as a system? If it is, then why even use the word “dispositif”? Could anyone explain it to me? I’m kind of desperate.
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For me it’s like a refinement of the ideas he wrote about in The Archaeology of Knowledge, the space between events that allows events to happen, the binding and consequent unbinding of the physical, structural, linguistic and personal machinism of society that intertwine to enable societies imaginary vision of what is normal, and in turn what is not.
The intricacies of the different and often indeed apparently unrelated elements can have different roles within society at the same time. A very coarse example of this could be the police, they protect but at the same time can oppress. Now imagine that unsubtle example across the board for almost all intertwined societal influences, all of the discussions, the political directions, the services… forming the norm at any one chosen time in history. Constantly evolving and mutating, reforming deviancy and madness, and indeed how to respond to such things, within its self constructed relevance of contemporary normalcy.
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