gilles deleuze what is a dispositif?
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In Deleuze’s text he outlines and analyses Foucault’s philosophies on the term ‘dispositif’. Deleuze describes his understanding of the apparatus (dispositif) and the many faceted elements within it. He begins by describing that a dispositif, in the first understanding is a multi-linear ensemble (apparatus) that is comprised of lines that hold their own individual characteristic and difference in nature. He then goes on to explain that the lines within the apparatus are subject to sedimentation, breakage and fracture. Deleuze unveils that the apparatus is a social apparatus. Analysing this social apparatus can be comparatively like drawing up a map or doing cartography or surveying the unknown landscapes. The lines within the apparatus, not only make up the apparatus but they play a role in altering and pulling the apparatus apart in areas. Deleuze draws our attention to Foucault’s philosophy that curves of visibility and curves of enunciation within the lines of the apparatus can structure light in varied ways, giving new light and birth to objects. Deleuze then highlights the curved variables to the social context that they are shaped around. Deleuze explains more of Foucault’s philosophies and how the apparatus is shaped and composed. He questions whether the apparatus could be a reflection of the intrinsic aesthetic modes of existence. After analysing Foucault’s philosophy Deleuze reaches an understanding that we belong to social apparatus’s and act within them