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Dispositive currently redirects to this article. What about the dispositive from Michel Foucault's Discourse analysis? German Wikipedia has an own article on Foucault's dispositive. To give a hint to those I might hopefully inspire to start an English article on Dispositive (Foucault), German sociologist Siegfried Jäger defines Foucault's dispositive as "an interaction of mental images, interpersonal, and verbal actions based upon a shared knowledge pool, as well as the act of constructing definitions by means of such images and interactions, including all of this defining process's consequences". Or, quoting Foucault's own words:
The German Wikipedia article traces that quote by Foucault to a German translation of one of his works, Dispositive der Macht. Über Sexualität, Wissen und Wahrheit ("Dispositives of power: On sexuality, knowledge, and truth"), published in 1978. I'm still trying to find out the original French and/or translated English title of that book. The most closely resembling article, however, you get when entering dispositif in French Wikipedia seems to be fr:Institution disciplinaire. --79.193.78.103 (talk) 22:59, 21 March 2009 (UTC)