Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination.
Evidence
In its mystical or ascetic form, exercise was a way of ordering earthly time for the conquest of salvation. It was gradually, in the history of the West, to change direction while preserving certain of its characteristics; it served to economize the time of life, to accumulate it in a useful form and to exercise power over men through the mediation of time arranged in this way. Exercise, having become an element in the political technology of the body and of duration, does not culminate in a beyond, but tends towards a subjection that has never reached its limit. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 244
Categorization
- XREF: Mirrors the panoptic internalization thesis: ascetic self-discipline aimed at salvation becomes a worldly self-subjection with no terminus — like the prisoner who polices himself because he cannot know when he is watched. — connects to: Institutions laicized religious minute-discipline into technical control of everyday life — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 217; Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121; Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity. (+7 more)
Related
- Christianity’s spiritual turn ceded worldly life to profane authority (similarity 0.85)
- Institutions laicized religious minute-discipline into technical control of everyday life (similarity 0.83)
- Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules (similarity 0.78)
- Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.78)
- Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Institutions laicized religious minute-discipline into technical control of everyday life
#expands(0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 217 - Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines
#expands(0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247 - Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion
#expands(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121 - Coding religion as rule-like law crushes moral freedom and spontaneity.
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