Abstracts
Abstract
The article asks how problems of historical method are implied in the question “What Is Left of Apparatus Theory [...] ?”, the topic of the round table for which this paper was first delivered at the IMPACT conference. It goes on to recap the problems with traditional historical approaches : the “from…to” overview, the linear narrative, and the teleological expectation, to name a few. Then, it suggests, following Reinhard Koselleck, that teleologies (like the teleology to end all teleologies – the death of cinema) are unavoidable if one is functioning as a historian-positioned-in-time. Finally, it asks how we are to lay out Baudry and Foucault and trace the “adventures” of the apparatus and apparatus theory when the discourse theory that underwrote their projects critiques the project of “discovering” past events since in the end we are constituting the technology we discover, the same technology that we have said constitutes us.
Résumé
L’auteure, ayant participé à une table ronde intitulée “Que reste-t-il de la théorie du dispositif?”, lors du colloque Impact, s’interroge sur les problèmes historiographiques que soulève cette question. Elle y résume les problèmes liés aux approches traditionnelles de l’histoire : la vue d’ensemble “de/depuis ... à/jusqu’à”; le récit linéaire; la perspective téléologique; etc. Ensuite, s’inspirant de Reinhard Kosselleck, elle suggère que les téléologies (comme celle de mettre fin à toutes les téléoglogies – la mort du cinéma) sont inévitables pour quiconque occupe la position d’un historien-situé-dans-le-temps. Elle s’interroge enfin sur la façon d’exposer les travaux de Baudry et de Foucault, et sur comment retracer les “aventures” du dispositif et de sa théorisation alors que la théorie du discours ayant souscrit à leurs projets critique toute “découverte” d’événements passés, puisqu’en définitive elle avance que nous en sommes toujours à constituer la technologie que nous découvrons alors même que nous croyons qu’elle nous constitue.
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