Coercive punishment requires a power that encloses the punished individual completely
Evidence
The agent of punishment must exercise a total power, which no third party can disturb; the individual to be corrected must be entirely enveloped in the power that is being exercised over him. Secrecy is imperative, and so too is autonomy, at least in relation to this technique of punishment: it must have its own functioning, its own rules, its own techniques, its own knowledge; it must fix its own norms, decide its own results. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 208
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels the panoptic telescreen logic in Oceania: total envelopment, secrecy, autonomy of the surveilling power — the very features Orwell builds into the telescreen apparatus. — connects to: All prison-model disputes shared the goal of coercive individualization — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 367; The principle of humane punishment remains undefined yet treated as insuperable — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 127; Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 159 (+1 more)
Related
- All prison-model disputes shared the goal of coercive individualization (similarity 0.83)
- Sentence individualization and exhaustive codification require each other in the economy of punishment (similarity 0.79)
- Both sovereign and disciplinary power pursue the exploitation of others through obedience (similarity 0.78)