El concepto de dispositivo: análisis de situaciones problemáticas y situaciones jurídicas

Abstract

Taking as a reference Gilles Deleuze’s studies on Michel Foucault’s concept of dispositif, this article analyzes several problematic and juridical situations in the field of juridicity. In such situations the components of the dispositif can be identified, that is, (i) the forms of knowledge in a legal system with their respective regimes: enunciative regime and regime of perceptual images; (ii) relations of formal and informal forces, which constitute and dynamize a legal field; and (iii) processes of internalization, through which individuals and groups filter forces and use forms as means, resources, or legal capitals. The reciprocal and reversible relations of the components of the dispositif are seen in the exercise of dispositive modalities and in the uses of activation mechanisms by agents, subjects, and authorities in given situations. Such exercises and uses depend on characteristic problems that make it possible to identify types of relationships strategic, competitive, collaborative, protocol or statutory, managerial, administrative, and ranking situations.