Both sovereign and disciplinary power rely on negativity and produce obedient subjects.
Evidence
Disciplinary power is normative power. It subjects the subject to a set of rules – norms, commandments and prohibitions – and eliminates deviations and anomalies. Such negativity of training and drills (Abrichtung) is constitutive of disciplinary power. On this point, it approaches the power of sovereignty, which has its basis in the negativity of levying and conscription (Abschöpfung). Both sovereign power and disciplinary power pursue allo-exploitation. They bring forth the obedience-subject. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 56
Categorization
- DEFINE: Introduces the key term ‘allo-exploitation’ and the ‘obedience-subject,’ which Han’s psychopolitics chapter contrasts against the neoliberal achievement-subject.
- XREF: connects to: Both sovereign and disciplinary power pursue the exploitation of others through obedience; Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264; Mutual reciprocal influence resembles love more than power because power relies on negative sanctions. — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 803 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Both sovereign and disciplinary power pursue the exploitation of others through obedience
#corroborates(0.85) - Power produces subjects and desires rather than merely repressing them
#qualifies(0.78) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 131 - Sovereign power makes the subject’s very life and death depend on its will
#exemplifies(0.78) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 255 - Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them.
#qualifies(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264 - Mutual reciprocal influence resembles love more than power because power relies on negative sanctions.
#corroborates(0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 803