Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products.

Evidence

The regulation imposed by power is at the same time the law of construction of the operation. Thus disciplinary power appears to have the function not so much of deduction as of synthesis, not so much of exploitation of the product as of coercive link with the apparatus of production. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 234

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Clarifies ‘instrumental coding’ and the body-machine complex, central to the reader’s body-art/history framework.
  • XREF: connects to: Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264; Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301; Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 236 (+6 more)

Broader Connections