dispositif
Meanings
noun
- A part of a document that communicates the decisions taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.
- According to Michel Foucault, the aggregate of institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures that enhance and maintain the exercise of power within society (see dispositif).
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French dispositif.
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