dispositif

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A part of a document that communicates the decisions taken by some organization or nation on a particular issue.
  2. 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

dispositif dispositifs dispositive

Etymology

Borrowed from French dispositif.

Related words

operative part substance purport terms expressing the notion for court decision under common law
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