Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines
Evidence
Discipline is no longer simply an art of distributing bodies, of extracting time from them and accumulating it, but of composing forces in order to obtain an efficient machine. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247
Categorization
- DEFINE: This is the chapter’s core conceptual shift: discipline adds a fourth operation (composition of forces) to the prior three of distribution, control of activity, and organization of genesis.
- XREF: Directly builds the analytical bridge the reader wants: the panopticon is where composing forces meets internalized surveillance — the prisoner is the machine’s element. — connects to: Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 232; Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 236; Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 239 (+6 more)
Related
- Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.88)
- Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.84)
- Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time (similarity 0.83)
- Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.80)
- A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected (similarity 0.80)
- Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power. (similarity 0.80)
- The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power. (similarity 0.80)
- Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within (similarity 0.79)
- Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. (similarity 0.78)
- Discipline was proposed as the national principle of a perpetual machine-state (similarity 0.78)
- Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination. (similarity 0.78)
- Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Discipline was proposed as the national principle of a perpetual machine-state
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 253 - A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73