A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture
Evidence
In the correct use of the body, which makes possible a correct use of time, nothing must remain idle or useless: everything must be called upon to form the support of the act required. A well-disciplined body forms the operational context of the slightest gesture. Good handwriting, for example, presupposes a gymnastics – a whole routine whose rigorous code invests the body in its entirety, from the points of the feet to the tip of the index finger. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 233
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: The claim that a body’s total posture forms the ‘operational context’ of the smallest act is the mechanism by which power colonizes the whole body through a single gesture — a genuinely dense idea about how micro-discipline scales to total control.
- XREF: connects to: A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73; Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213; Upright posture is a selected habit sustained by unconscious will
Related
- Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. (similarity 0.84)
- Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73 - Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body.
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213