Greg Bird is Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is a contemporary social and political theorist. His first book, Containing Community,won the 2017 Symposium Book Award (Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy).

Giovanbattista Tusa is a philosopher and video artist based at the Nova University of Lisbon in Portugal, where he coordinates the research program X-CENTRIC FUTURES. He is a coauthor, with Alain Badiou, of The End.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
PROBLEMATIZING DISPOSITIFS 1
Greg Bird
I ARCHITECTRONICS/MECHANISMS
1 FRAGMENT ON MACHINES 23
Karl Marx
2 IN THE PENAL COLONY 35
Franz Kafka
3 MACHINE AND ORGANISM 59
Georges Canguilhem
4 GENESIS OF THE TECHNICAL OBJECT: THE PROCESS OF CONCRETIZATION 89
Gilbert Simondon
5 MACHINE FRAGMENTS 103
Gerald Raunig
6 IS A MUSEUM A FACTORY? 113
Hito Steyerl
7 OF STRUCTION 123
Jean-Luc Nancy
8 WE, MACHINIC SUBJECTS 133
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
9 COGNITIVE ASSEMBLAGES: TECHNICAL AGENCY
AND HUMAN INTERACTIONS 147
N. Katherine Hayles
II POSITIVITY/TACTICS
10 THE IDEA OF POSITIVITY 163
Jean Hyppolite
11 THE QUESTION CONCERNING TECHNOLOGY 171
Martin Heidegger
12 THE DISPOSITIF OF SEXUALITY 195
Michel Foucault
13 THE CONFESSION OF THE FLESH 205
Michel Foucault
14 LATENT AND MANIFEST ORIENTALISM 219
Edward Said
15 WHAT IS A DISPOSITIF? 231
Gilles Deleuze
16 GENDER TROUBLE 239
Judith Butler
17 WHAT IS AN APPARATUS? 251
Giorgio Agamben
18 BEFORE THE LAW: HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS IN A BIOPOLITICAL FRAME 263
Cary Wolfe
III PROSTHETICS/EMBODIMENTS
19 IDEOLOGY AND IDEOLOGICAL STATE APPARATUSES 277
Louis Althusser
20 THE TECHNOLOGY OF GENDER 289
Teresa de Lauretis
21 POSTSCRIPT ON THE SOCIETIES OF CONTROL 305
Gilles Deleuze
22 THE OTHER QUESTION: STEREOTYPE, DISCRIMINATION AND THE DISCOURSE OF COLONIALISM 311
Homi K. Bhabha
23 SYNTACTICS: THE GRAMMAR OF FEMINISM AND TECHNOSCIENCE 323
Donna J. Haraway
24 ONTOLOGY OF THE ACCIDENT: AN ESSAY ON DESTRUCTIVE PLASTICITY 333
Catherine Malabou
25 THE DISPOSITIF OF THE PERSON 341
Roberto Esposito
26 THE BIOPOLITICAL BIRTH OF GENDER: SOCIAL CONTROL, HERMAPHRODITISM, AND THE NEW SEXUAL APPARATUS 351
Jemima Repo
27 SOMATECHNICS 363
Nikki Sullivan
28 DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL 367
Jasbir K. Puar
29 DISPOSITIFS OF PLEASURE 375
Anita Chari
30 DISPOSITIF 383
Franco Berardi (Bifo)
IV INOPERATIVITY/RESISTANCE
31 THE PARERGON 389
Jacques Derrida
32 THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE 399
Michel de Certeau
33 FROM BIOPOWER TO BIOPOLITICS 413
Maurizio Lazzarato
34 “A CRITICAL METAPHYSICS COULD EMERGE AS A SCIENCE OF APPARATUSES . . .” 425
Tiqqun
35 INDIGENOUS INTERRUPTIONS: MOHAWK NATIONHOOD, CITIZENSHIP AND THE STATE 435
Audra Simpson
36 APPARATUS 453
Eukariot
37 HUMAN STRIKE, REPRODUCTION, AND MAGIC MATERIALISM 465
Claire Fontaine
DISPOSITIFS: CARTOGRAPHIES OF DISORIENTATION 487
Giovanbattista Tusa