Acknowledgments Questioning the Word "dispositif": Note on the Translation Foreword I. Dispositives : programs François Albera, Maria Tortajada : The Dispositive Does Not Exist ! Thomas Elsaesser : Between Knowing and Believing: The Cinematic Dispositive after Cinema II. Dispositives : issues Patrick Désile : "You do not even know where you are": Dispositive and Dizziness Maria Tortajada : The Reconstruction of a Concept: Marey and the Synthesis of Movement Elie During : Notes on the Bergsonian Cinematograph Charles Musser : The Stereopticon and Cinema: Media Form or Platform? André Gaudreault : On Some Limitations of the Definition of the Dispositive "Cinema" Omar Haschemi, The Moment of the "Dispositif" Philippe Ortel : The "Dispositive Effect" in Film Narrative III. Dispositives : histories Alain Boillat : The Social Imaginary of Telephony. Fictional Dispositives in Albert Robida's Le Vingtième Siècle and the Archeology of "Talking Cinema" Laurent Guido : Between Paradoxical Spectacles and Technical Dispositives: Looking Again at the Serpentine Dances of Early Cinema Benoît Turquety : Forms of Machines, Forms of Movement François Albera : The Amateur-Dispositive Gilles Delavaud : Two Versions of the Television Dispositive Charlotte Bouchez : Reality Television as Dispositive: The Case of French-Speaking Switzerland Christophe Wall-Romana : Dispositive and Cinepoetry, around Foucault's Death and the Labyrinth Viva Paci : Archaeology and Spectacle: Old Dispositives and New Objects for Surprised Spectators Stopping by the Museum Authors