While Foucault's work has had a crucial impact on organizational research, the analytical potential of the dispositive has not been sufficiently developed. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct the notion of the dispositive as a key conception in Foucault's thought, particularly in his lectures at the Collège de France, and to develop dispositional analytics with specific reference to matters of organization. Foucault's dispositional analysis articulates a history of interrelated social technologies that have been constructed to organize how we relate to each other. The article distinguishes various dispositional prototypes. It shows how dispositional analytics leads the way beyond general periodizations and established dichotomies such as the either-or of the discursive and non-discursive, power and freedom, determinism, and agency; and it demonstrates how dispositional analytics can contribute to a more complex understanding of organizational dynamics, power, strategy, resistance, and critique. Dispositional analytics allows for a new interpretation and use of Foucault in relation to organization studies.
Michel Foucault ist einer der am häufigsten zitierten Autoren in den Geisteswissenschaften geworden. Dieses Studienhandbuch bietet eine neue, zusammenhängende Darstellung seiner Schriften, von denen oft behauptet wird, sie seien von Brüchen und Widersprüchen geprägt. Es werden nicht nur die Hauptwerke behandelt, sondern ebenso die kleineren Publikationen und die zahlreichen Vorlesungen. Eine genaue Lektüre dieser umfassenden Textgrundlage lässt sonst leicht übersehene Verbindungslinien erkennbar werden. Der Band richtet sich an alle, die sich eingehender mit Foucault beschäftigen wollen, ganz gleich, ob sie ein einzelnes Werk besser verstehen oder einen Überblick über das gesamte Schaffen gewinnen möchten. Ebenso hilfreich ist das Studienhandbuch, wenn es darum geht, Foucaults Analysen jener Phänomene nachzuvollziehen, die ihn immer wieder neu beschäftigt haben: Diskurs und Macht, Subjektivität und Literatur, Wahnsinn und Krankheit, Hospital und Anstalt, Gefängnis und Strafrecht, Erziehung und Schule, Beichte und Bekenntnis, Sexualität und Selbstführung, Staatsräson und Biopolitik...
Anthropologists have spent tremendous effort developing value theory. We might generally understand value theory as a form of social theory concerned with what groups of people find important or worthwhile in life; how those groups of people, via their relationships, identify, seek, and create that which is valuable; how ideas of value and worth inhere in people and things; and how those people and things then circulate and meet other universes of value. This introduction specifically, and this special issue more generally, seeks to build on this bedrock conception of value theory to offer a series of implications and considerations one should take on board when thinking about value. We suggest that these considerations will allow social researchers to more ably understand the pressing issues that motivate their investigations.
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