Disciplinary society suppresses emotion while achievement society exploits it

Evidence

In disciplinary society, where one’s task is to function, emotions represent disturbances. Accordingly, every effort is made to weed them out. Disciplinary society’s ‘concerted orthopaedy’ seeks to make a shapeless mass of dough into an unfeeling machine. Machines function best when all emotions and feelings have been switched off. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 107

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly relevant to the sacrifice/immolation line of work: the disciplinary machine ideal is a body stripped of feeling, so feeling’s return is posed as liberation — a neat inversion of the sacrificial logic elsewhere in the reader’s book corpus.
• XREF: connects to: Emotionality replaces rationality when disciplinary reason hits a productivity limit; Emotional capitalism exploits emotions’ fleeting performativity, which feelings lack — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 98; Racial affect circulates as intensified emotions mediating exclusion and disciplinary power (+3 more)

Related

• Emotionality replaces rationality when disciplinary reason hits a productivity limit (similarity 0.80)
• Neoliberalism deploys emotion as a productivity resource once rationality hits its limits (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Emotional capitalism exploits emotions’ fleeting performativity, which feelings lack #expands (0.90) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 98
• Emotionality replaces rationality when disciplinary reason hits a productivity limit #expands (0.85)
• Mandated self-expression makes affective demands on Control-society workers #expands (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 84
• Emotions are short-lived and exploitable; feelings endure and resist exploitation #expands (0.82) — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 98
• Racial affect circulates as intensified emotions mediating exclusion and disciplinary power #expands (0.78)
• Control society operates through familial emotional bondage #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 686