A new power mechanism, incompatible with sovereignty, was invented in the 17th-18th centuries

Evidence

Now, an important phenomenon occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the appearance—one should say the invention— of a new mechanism of power which had very specific procedures, completely new instruments, and very different equipment. It was, I believe, absolutely incompatible with relations of sovereignty. This new mechanism of power applies primarily to bodies and what they do rather than to the land and what it produces. It was a mechanism of power that made it possible to extract time and labor, rather than — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 53

Categorization

• DEFINE: The defining contrast between sovereignty-power (over land and produce) and the new disciplinary power (over bodies, time, labor)—the pivot of the whole lecture series.
• XREF: This binary sets up the analytic distinction later Islamophobia readings use: sovereignty-death versus biopower-life, which underwrites necropolitics. — connects to: Resistance to disciplinary power requires a new right, not a return to sovereignty.; Totalitarian power mechanisms extend liberal Western techniques rather than inventing them — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 291; Authority is a constructed, analyzable mechanism rather than a natural given (+1 more)

Related

• Resistance to disciplinary power requires a new right, not a return to sovereignty. (similarity 0.86)
• Analyzing power requires abandoning the juridical-representation model entirely (similarity 0.82)
• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty (similarity 0.81)
• Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination. (similarity 0.81)
• Western thought has no representation of power outside the legal model (similarity 0.80)
• Totalitarian power mechanisms extend liberal Western techniques rather than inventing them (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 52
• Totalitarian power mechanisms extend liberal Western techniques rather than inventing them #qualifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 291
• Authority is a constructed, analyzable mechanism rather than a natural given #expands (0.72)