A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected

Evidence

But the body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs. This political investment of the body is bound up, in accordance with complex reciprocal relations, with its economic use; it is largely as a force of production that the body is invested with relations of power and domination; but, on the other hand, its constitution as labour power is possible only if it is caught up in a system of subjection (in which need is also a political instrument meticulously prepared, calculated and used); the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body and a subjected body. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the core concept of the political technology of the body that anchors the whole panoptic analysis.
• XREF: Directly parallels Bentham and Foucault’s own later analysis of the panopticon as a machine for rendering bodies productive through visible but unverifiable surveillance. — connects to: A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 233; Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247; Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301 (+6 more)

Related

• Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.83)
• The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power. (similarity 0.83)
• Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. (similarity 0.81)
• Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.81)
• The body politic is a set of material techniques, not a metaphor (similarity 0.80)
• Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.80)
• Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power. #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213
• State power depends on borrowing the bodies of its subjects #complicates (0.78) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 695
• Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it #responds-to (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301