From the Disciplinary Device to the Intercessory Device

Abstract

This text has as a motto to characterize the notion of "device" from a reading that understands it as everything that produces assemblages towards the production of a singularizing subjectivation. In order to reach this goal, we used the theoretical exercises of Agamben and Costa-Rosa, authors who adopt a singular definition of the concept of the device, formerly coined by Foucault and later by worked by Deleuze. Agamben brings the idea of a device as a set of strategies circumscribed in relation, games of forces, which can produce capture networks and a determining type of (dis) subjectivation, so it will treat to desecrate the disciplinary devices. Costa-Rosa adds to the concept of device the concept of intercessor - originating from Deleuze, but reread from psychoanalysis and historical materialism - formalizing, or rather instrumentalizing, what Agamben proposes in defending the device. Thus, the two authors seem to formalize a bet on the perception of a device that recognizes as necessary the production of singularized subjectivities