apparatus

is (as the bureaucracy, the police and the military) mankind's greatest adversary: It tramples all human values.

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus-the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others. Simone Weil

is, (as the network of relations between discursive and non-discursive elements) a specific response to particular dimensions of larger prolematizations (i.e. Madness, life, criminal activity).

an articulation of technologies aimed at 1) specifying targets and then 2) controlling (distributing and regulating) them (Rabinow 2003). resolutely heterogeneous objects including discourses, institutions, architectural arrangements, philosophic, moral, and philanthropic propositions. The apparatus is 'the network that can be established between these elements (Rabinow 2003:51). Apparatuses are specific responses to particular dimensions of larger prolematizations (Rabinow 2003:55).

is a formation that at a given historical moment has as its major function the response to an urgency. It has a dominant strategic function.

. . . by the term 'apparatus' I mean a kind of a forma tion, so to speak, that at a given historical moment has as its major function the response to an urgency.The appa ratus therefore has a dominant strategic function . .. (Agamben 2009: 232)

is a heterogeneous network including virtually anything, linguistic and nonlinguistic. It is strategic, always located in a power relation, and as such, appears at intersection of power relations and relations of knowledge.

is a heterogeneous network that contains virtually everything (linguistic and non-linguistic, under the same heading.

Let me briefly summarize three points:a. It is a heterogeneous set that includes virtually anything, linguistic and nonlinguistic. under The same heading: discourses, institutions, buildings, laws, police measures, philosophical propositions, and so on. The apparatus itself is the net work that is established between these elements. ( Foucault in Agamben 20092-3)

is a response to a problematization. It is still long-long lasting ('discipline' 'confession' 'insurance'), stable, but also mobile.

An apparatus is a response to a problematization. It is still long-long lasting ('discipline' 'confession' 'insurance'), stable, but also mobile. (Rabinow 2009:56)

is a set of strategies of the relations of forces supporting, and supported by, certain types of knowledge.

The apparatus is precisely this: a set of strategies of the relations offorces supporting, and supported by, certain types of knowledge.2 (Foucault in Agamben 2)

is a sort of network that includes both things that are said and unsaid, that is to say discourses, laws, regulations, administrative enunciations, institutions and architectural ensembles.

apparatus meant 'a heterogeneous ensemble, a sort of network that includes both the said and the unsaid, that is to say discourses, laws, regulations, administrative enunciations, institutions and architectural ensembles' (Deleuze 1989: 185).

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