Le « dispositif de guerre » comme analyseur des rapports de pouvoir

On The Government of the Living

“…106 Conversely, the whole program of research developed since 1970 could be read as a series of more or less discontinuous inquiries on different apparatuses (dispositifs) of power-knowledge-forms of analysis of measure, the inquiry, and the examination, 107 the emergence of the judicial apparatus, carceral penality, penal psychiatry, the model of war as "analyzer of power relations," and the economic government of populations-from Ancient Greece to the nineteenth century. 108 From this it is easy to imagine the surprise of Foucault's audience when, in the first lecture of the course, distancing himself from "the now worn and hackneyed theme of knowledge-power," he declare he wants to "get rid of" it. 109 Just as that concept had enabled him to put the notion of dominant ideology out of play, so henceforth it must give way to the new concept that Foucault propose to develop of "government by the truth.…”