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Re:Social Cooling (2017) by ozorOzora on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:44AM (#24629215)
I think they are referring to the idea of "apparatus" from Michel Foucault.

From wikipedia: "I shall call an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositif

Re:Social Cooling (2017) by socialcooling on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @02:40PM (#24631391)
Actually I just meant to refer to Foucault's analysis of Bentham's panopticon prison concept.