%0 Journal Article
%T The Dispositif between Foucault and Agamben
%A Tom Frost
%J Law, Culture and the Humanities
%@ 1743-9752
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1743872115571697
%X This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article¡¯s focus is on both philosophers¡¯ use and interpretation of the dispositif, or apparatus, which controls and orders subjects, and which is the target for forms of resistance. Whereas for Foucault resistance is a practice existing as a transcendent possibility for any individual, Agamben reads such transcendent forms of resistance as ultimately reinforcing the control of the dispositif, arguing that only a turn to ontology and immanent politics can resistance be meaningful
%K Foucault
%K Agamben
%K resistance
%K dispositif
%K transcendence
%K immanence
%K life
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1743872115571697