Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them.

Evidence

The chief function of the disciplinary power is to ‘train’, rather than to select and to levy; or, no doubt, to train in order to levy and select all the more. It does not link forces together in order to reduce them; it seeks to bind them together in such a way as to multiply and use them. Instead of bending all its subjects into a single uniform mass, it separates, analyses, differentiates, carries its procedures of decomposition to the point of necessary and sufficient single units. It ‘trains’ the moving, confused, useless multitudes of bodies and forces into a multiplicity of individual elements – small, separate cells, organic autonomies, genetic identities and continuities, combinatory segments. Discipline ‘makes’ individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise. It is not a triumphant power, which because of its own excess can pride itself on its omnipotence; it is a modest, suspicious power, which functions as a calculated, but permanent economy. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 264

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines discipline’s distinctive productivity: it manufactures individuals as both objects and instruments of power.
• XREF: connects to: Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 234; Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301; Disciplinary punishment operates by comparing, differentiating, hierarchizing, homogenizing and excluding rather than by expiating. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 281 (+8 more)

Related

• Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.87)
• Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it (similarity 0.85)
• Both sovereign and disciplinary power pursue the exploitation of others through obedience (similarity 0.85)
• The individual is an effect of power, not its presupposed target (similarity 0.84)
• Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power. (similarity 0.83)
• Discipline produces individuality with four characteristics via four techniques (similarity 0.82)
• Discipline judges individuals themselves, not just their acts (similarity 0.81)
• Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.81)
• Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus (similarity 0.81)
• Modern discipline operates internally to produce the individual, not externally to restrict it (similarity 0.80)
• Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.80)
• The modern concept of progress and individual development emerged from techniques of power. (similarity 0.79)
• Disciplinary punishment operates by comparing, differentiating, hierarchizing, homogenizing and excluding rather than by expiating. (similarity 0.79)
• Disciplinary power aims at maximum effect at minimum cost and resistance. (similarity 0.79)
• Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it #corroborates (1.00) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301