An Apparatus (n.) 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.
An Apparatus (n.) is a heterogeneous network that contains virtually everything (linguistic and non-linguistic, under the same heading.
The Apparatus (n.) is a set of strategies of the relations of forces supporting, and supported by, certain types of knowledge.
An Apparatus (n.) is always operating with a concrete strategic function and is always located in a power relation.
An Apparatus (n.) is an articulation of technologies aimed at specifying targets and controlling (distributing and regulating) them.
An Apparatus (n.) is bound to appear at the intersection of power relations and relations of knowledge.
An Apparatus (n.) is composed of elements which are resolutely heterogeneous, including discourses, institutions, architectural arrangements, philosophic, moral, and philanthropic propositions. The apparatus is the network that can be established between these elements.
An Apparatus (n.) is the network established between a heterogeneous set consisting of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, laws, and administrative measures (i.e. The said as much as the unsaid).
An Apparatus (n.) is the various institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures which enhance and maintain the exercise of power within the social body.
An Apparatus (n.) is what takes the place of the universals in the foucauldian strategy, not simply this or that po lice measure, this or that technology of power.
An Apparatus (n.) is what takes the place of the universals in the foucauldian strategy.
An Apparatus (n.) is what, in the foucauldian framework, takes the place of the universal. It is not this or that police measure or technology, but the network that can be established between these elements.