Disciplinary power selects, normalizes, hierarchizes, and centralizes knowledges.

Evidence

The great studies of handicraft methods, metallurgical techniques, and mining—the great surveys that were made between the middle and the end of the eighteenth century—corresponded to this attempt to nomalize technical knowledges. The existence, foundation, or development of grandes écoles such as the Ecole des Mines and the Ecole Ponts et Chaussées, and so on, made it possible to establish both quantitative and qualitative levels, breaks and strata between these different knowledges, and that allowed them to be arranged into a hierarchy. And finally, the corps of inspectors who, throughout the kingdom, advised and counseled people on how to develop and use these different knowledges ensured that knowledge was centralized. … All these projyects—and I have cited only two examples—basically had four goals: selection, normalization, hierarchicalization, and centralization. These are the four operations that we see at work in a fairly detailed study of what we call disciplinary power. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 197

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names and defines the four core operations of disciplinary power — a foundational vocabulary term.
• XREF: Connects forward to Foucault’s account of the university and knowledge disciplinarization used in Islamophobia theory readings. — connects to: The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284; Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power; Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75 (+2 more)

Related

• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism (similarity 0.82)
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power (similarity 0.82)
• The everyday examination is an overlooked origin of modern power-knowledge (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75
• The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power #corroborates (0.78)