Disciplinary power aims at maximum effect at minimum cost and resistance.
Evidence
But the peculiarity of the disciplines is that they try to define in relation to the multiplicities a tactics of power that fulfils three criteria: firstly, to obtain the exercise of power at the lowest possible cost (economically, by the low expenditure it involves; politically, by its discretion, its low exteriorization, its relative invisibility, the little resistance it arouses); secondly, to bring the effects of this social power to their maximum intensity and to extend them as far as possible, without either failure or interval; thirdly, to link this ‘economic’ growth of power with the output of the apparatuses (educational, military, industrial or medical) within which it is exercised; in short, to increase both the docility and the utility of all the elements of the system. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 343
Categorization
- DEFINE: Sets out Foucault’s formal definition of the discipline’s triple objective, the exact mechanism a Bentham/Foucault comparative reading needs.
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s project of comparing Orwell’s telescreens to panoptic architecture — the telescreen is disciplinary power operating at low cost and high intensity. — connects to: Executing discipline with minimum necessary force shapes behavior effectively. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 459; Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 135; Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73
Related
- Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus (similarity 0.85)
- Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power. (similarity 0.84)
- Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology (similarity 0.82)
- Disciplinary penality is irreducible to the traditional penality of law and eventually invested it. (similarity 0.81)
- Panopticism extends discipline from enclosed quarantine to every distant element (similarity 0.80)
- Disciplinary power is both everywhere-alert and permanently silent (similarity 0.79)
- Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.79)
- Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. (similarity 0.79)
- Panoptic power embeds within daily functions rather than constraining from without (similarity 0.78)
- Disciplinary punishment operates by comparing, differentiating, hierarchizing, homogenizing and excluding rather than by expiating. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Executing discipline with minimum necessary force shapes behavior effectively.
#corroborates(0.92) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 459 - Penal reform aimed to increase punishment’s effects while lowering its costs.
#corroborates(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 135 - Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology
#corroborates(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73