Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus

Evidence

‘Discipline’ may be identified neither with an institution nor with an apparatus; it is a type of power, a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a ‘physics’ or an ‘anatomy’ of power, a technology. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core formal definition of discipline as a modality of power — essential for testing whether Oceania’s telescreens qualify as panoptic.
• XREF: This is the precise formal definition the reader needs to adjudicate whether Orwell’s telescreens are genuinely panoptic discipline vs. spectacle. — 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; Discipline was proposed as the national principle of a perpetual machine-state — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 253; Disciplinary power is a network function, not a possessed property — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 273 (+4 more)

Related

• Disciplinary power is a network function, not a possessed property (similarity 0.85)
• Disciplinary power aims at maximum effect at minimum cost and resistance. (similarity 0.85)
• Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology (similarity 0.84)
• Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.82)
• Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power. (similarity 0.81)
• Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. (similarity 0.81)
• Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.79)
• Modern discipline operates internally to produce the individual, not externally to restrict it (similarity 0.79)
• Power operates as a diffuse micro-physics not localized in any single institution (similarity 0.78)
• Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.78)
• Panoptic power embeds within daily functions rather than constraining from without (similarity 0.78)