Dispositif or Desire of the Outside? The Differences
between Conceptions of Power of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze Cover Image

Dispozityvas ar išorės geismas? Michelio Foucault ir Gilles’io Deleuze’o galios sampratų skirtumai
Dispositif or Desire of the Outside? The Differences between Conceptions of Power of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze

Author(s): Kasparas Pocius
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism
Published by: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų
Keywords: dispositif; conduct; resistance; outside; neoliberalism;

Summary/Abstract: The article scrutinizes the conceptions of power of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, emphasizes their differences and characterizes the historical causes which have allowed the emergence of these differences. Deleuze, in the theory which he has created separately and together with Félix Guattari, conceptualizes the notion of immanent outside of power while observing the possibilities to resist in the lines of flight which the assemblages involve. Meanwhile Foucault creates a concept of dispositif, where the person’s conduct presupposes his/her subjection to power: a person becomes the object and simultaneously a subject, who realizes herself in some power diagram. While, after 1975, Deleuze develops the strategies of resistance to any power, Foucault seeks self-realization in the strategies of individuation and self-creation, which, from the historical perspective, were not unrelated to the emergence of neoliberalism at the end of the 20th century.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 212-222
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Lithuanian