Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints.
Evidence
Through this technique of subjection a new object was being formed; slowly, it superseded the mechanical body – the body composed of solids and assigned movements, the image of which had for so long haunted those who dreamt of disciplinary perfection. This new object is the natural body, the bearer of forces and the seat of duration; it is the body susceptible to specified operations, which have their order, their stages, their internal conditions, their constituent elements. In becoming the target for new mechanisms of power, the body is offered up to new forms of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 236
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the shift from the ‘mechanical body’ to the ‘natural body’ as the new object of disciplinary knowledge.
- XREF: 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 evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247; The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 237 (+3 more)
Related
- Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.89)
- Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.88)
- Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.88)
- The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power. (similarity 0.88)
- The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate. (similarity 0.86)
- Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. (similarity 0.83)
- A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected (similarity 0.81)
- Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. (similarity 0.81)
- A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture (similarity 0.79)
- Manoeuvre replaced implicit tradition with explicit prescribed syntax binding body to object. (similarity 0.79)
- Both sovereign and disciplinary power pursue the exploitation of others through obedience (similarity 0.79)
- Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus (similarity 0.79)
- Modern humanist subjectivity was born from minute disciplinary techniques (similarity 0.79)
- Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power. (similarity 0.79)
- Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247 - The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate.
#corroborates(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 237 - The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power.
#contradicts(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213