Discipline combines chronologies so no moment of life goes unused

Evidence

The various chronological series that discipline must combine to form a composite time are also pieces of machinery. The time of each must be adjusted to the time of the others in such a way that the maximum quantity of forces may be extracted from each and combined with the optimum result. Thus Servan dreamt of a military machine that would cover the whole territory of the nation and in which each individual would be occupied without interruption but in a different way according to the evolutive segment, the genetic sequence in which he finds himself. Military life would begin in childhood, when young children would be taught the profession of arms in ‘military manors’; it would end in these same manors when the veterans, right up to their last day, would teach the children, exercise the recruits, preside over the soldiers’ exercises, supervise them when they were carrying out works in the public interest, and finally make order reign in the country, when the troops were fighting at the frontiers. There is not a single moment of life from which one cannot extract forces, providing one knows how to differentiate it and combine it with others. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 249

Categorization

• XREF: Servan’s lifelong military machine anticipates Oceania’s total occupation of the subject’s time — every hour of life is loaded with function, which is exactly how panoptic surveillance structures the day. — connects to: Disciplinary time replaced initiatory mastery with graded progressive series — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 241; Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 239; Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848
• QUESTION: Does Servan’s ‘military manors’ spanning cradle to grave prefigure Nineteen Eighty-Four’s total scheduling of the subject? Worth tracing whether Orwell could have drawn on such utopian-discipline schemes.

Related

• Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time (similarity 0.84)
• Power controls the individual through the segmented, seriated ordering of time. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848