#concept The Apparatus is a specific technical (or techno-political) enframing of the world. This concept is now literally collapsed into [[Platform]]. Agamben's text "What is an Apparatus" is very important, but also Foucault's notion of the 'dispositif' and Althusser's notion of the State Apparatus. From the point of view of technological determinism and psychoanalysis, look at Apparatus Theory of cinema of Jean Louis Baudry. [[agamben-what-is-and-apparatus.pdf]]