Disciplinary order blends artificial regulation with natural normative processes

Evidence

The order that the disciplinary punishments must enforce is of a mixed nature: it is an ‘artificial’ order, explicitly laid down by a law, a programme, a set of regulations. But it is also an order defined by natural and observable processes: the duration of an apprenticeship, the time taken to perform an exercise, the level of aptitude refer to a regularity that is also a rule. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 277

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains the ‘double juridico-natural reference’ — disciplinary norms claim legitimacy from being both mandated and observably natural.
• XREF: connects to: Modern societies adopt a gardener’s stance of engineered order over nature — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 171; The norm is what circulates between disciplinary and regulatory power — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 268; Established orders reproduce themselves by naturalizing their own arbitrariness — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 2149 (+2 more)

Related

• The norm is what circulates between disciplinary and regulatory power (similarity 0.79)