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+  From: Matthew King <making@xxxxxxxx>
+  Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:31:47 -0400 (EDT)
On 8 Oct 2000 jav65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I would greatly appreciate your help in the following inquiry.
> Where in Foucault's body of work does he speak of "abstract machines"
> and "assemblages?"

The closest thing I can think of is "dispositif", variously translated as
"deployment" and "apparatus", which he uses in History of Sexuality
vol. I.

Matthew

---Matthew A. King---Department of Philosophy---York University, Toronto---
"It was in the barbarous, gothic times when words had a meaning;
in those days, writers expressed thoughts."
----------------------------(Anatole France)-------------------------------


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