Discipline was proposed as the national principle of a perpetual machine-state

Evidence

‘Discipline must be made national,’ said Guibert. ‘The state that I depict will have a simple, reliable, easily controlled administration. It will resemble those huge machines, which by quite uncomplicated means produce great effects; the strength of this state will spring from its own strength, its prosperity from its own prosperity. Time, which destroys all, will increase its power. It will disprove that vulgar prejudice by which we are made to imagine that empires are subjected to an imperious law of decline and ruin’ (Guibert, xxiii–xxiv; cf. what Marx says about the army and forms of bourgeois society in his letter to Engels, 25 September 1857). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 253

Categorization

• XREF: Guibert’s self-reinforcing machine-state immune to decline is a striking prefiguration of Oceania’s permanent-war state ridding itself of historical contingency. — connects to: Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247; Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 239; Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 244 (+6 more)
• FICTION: Guibert’s sovereign ‘huge machine’ producing power from its own operations bleeds into the nightmare of a self-sustaining state in We, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and other anti-utopias.

Related

• Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 239
• Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination. #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 244
• Discipline produces individuality with four characteristics via four techniques #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 251
• Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 338
• Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty #complicates (0.75)
• English agrarian capitalism disciplined church, monarchy, and masses in turn #exemplifies (0.75)
• Absolute monarchy actualizes rather than contradicts social-pattern theory #expands (0.72) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 669
• State sovereignty is constituted by the nation-state system, not prior to it #corroborates (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 172