Dispositif
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In the philosophy of Michel Foucault, a dispositif or dispositive[1] is any of the various institutional, physical, and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures which enhance and maintain the exercise of power within the social body. The links between these elements are said to be heterogeneous since knowledge, practices, techniques, and institutions are established and reestablished in every age.[1] It is through these links that power relations are structured.[1]
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