Cellular discipline persists even when its compartments are only ideal, not physical

Evidence

Even if the compartments it assigns become purely ideal, the disciplinary space is always, basically, cellular. Solitude was necessary to both body and soul, according to a certain asceticism: they must, at certain moments at least, confront temptation and perhaps the severity of God alone. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 222

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘purely ideal’ cellularity has direct bearing on the thesis: even without physical walls, mental partitioning (each mind alone before God — or before Big Brother) is the telescreen’s psychological architecture. — connects to: Physical force achieves effects largely free of symbolic preconditions; Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 347

Broader Connections

• Physical force achieves effects largely free of symbolic preconditions #qualifies (0.72)
• Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it #expands (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 347