Both sovereign and disciplinary power pursue the exploitation of others through obedience

Evidence

It also made the body of the condemned man the place where the vengeance of the sovereign was applied, the anchoring point for a manifestation of power, an opportunity of affirming the dissymmetry of forces. We shall see later that the truth-power relation remains at the heart of all mechanisms of punishment and that it is still to be found in contemporary penal practice – but in a quite different form and with very different effects. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 110 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The chief function of the disciplinary power is to ‘train’, rather than to select and to levy; or, no doubt, to train in order to levy and select all the more. It does not link forces together in order to reduce them; it seeks to bind them together in such a way as to multiply and use them. Instead of bending all its subjects into a single uniform mass, it separates, analyses, differentiates, carries its procedures of decomposition to the point of necessary and sufficient single units. It ‘trains’ the moving, confused, useless multitudes of bodies and forces into a multiplicity of individual elements – small, separate cells, organic autonomies, genetic identities and continuities, combinatory segments. Discipline ‘makes’ individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power, which because of its own excess can pride itself on its omnipotence; it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Self-exploiting subject makes Hegel’s slave-master dialectic collapse — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 14; The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 110; Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264 (+3 more)

Related

• The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation (similarity 0.85)
• Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. (similarity 0.85)
• Both sovereign and disciplinary power rely on negativity and produce obedient subjects. (similarity 0.84)
• Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.81)
• Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.81)
• Discipline judges individuals themselves, not just their acts (similarity 0.81)
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind (similarity 0.79)
• Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.79)
• Modern punishment targets the soul rather than the body (similarity 0.79)
• Discipline created a private penal system punishing what state law ignored (similarity 0.79)
• Disciplinary punishment operates by comparing, differentiating, hierarchizing, homogenizing and excluding rather than by expiating. (similarity 0.79)
• The public spectacle of punishment gave way to enclosed hierarchized detention within decades. (similarity 0.78)
• Coercive punishment requires a power that encloses the punished individual completely (similarity 0.78)
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 110
• Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264
• Disciplinary power produces individuality rather than merely restricting it from outside #expands (0.72)