Discipline values details for the purchase they give power, not their hidden meaning

Evidence

For the disciplined man, as for the true believer, no detail is unimportant, but not so much for the meaning that it conceals within it as for the hold it provides for the power that wishes to seize it. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 217

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is the pivot that explains WHY the micro-observation of detail works: not symbolism but leverage. Dense enough to sit with; it reframes how attention on everyday minutiae functions as power.
• SEED: Article angle: why modern surveillance prizes trivial data points (keystrokes, location pings) not for their content but for the grip they grant over subjects.