Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time
Evidence
The Gobelins school is only one example of an important phenomenon: the development, in the classical period, of a new technique for taking charge of the time of individual existences; for regulating the relations of time, bodies and forces; for assuring an accumulation of duration; and for turning to ever-increased profit or use the movement of passing time. How can one capitalize the time of individuals, accumulate it in each of them, in their bodies, in their forces or in their abilities, in a way that is susceptible of use and control? How can one organize profitable durations? The disciplines, which analyse space, break up and rearrange activities, must also be understood as machinery for adding up and capitalizing time. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 239
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the disciplinary technique as ‘machinery for adding up and capitalizing time’ — a precise characterization of what the fourth spatial/temporal axis of discipline does.
- XREF: connects to: Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 232; Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230; Disciplinary time replaced initiatory mastery with graded progressive series — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 241 (+11 more)
Related
- Disciplinary time replaced initiatory mastery with graded progressive series (similarity 0.89)
- Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules (similarity 0.85)
- Disciplines refined monastic time into ever-finer measurable units (similarity 0.85)
- Power controls the individual through the segmented, seriated ordering of time. (similarity 0.85)
- Discipline combines chronologies so no moment of life goes unused (similarity 0.84)
- Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.83)
- Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within (similarity 0.82)
- Disciplinary time breaks acts into anatomically prescribed elemental movements (similarity 0.81)
- Rank itself is produced by the temporal series organizing exercises (similarity 0.80)
- The modern concept of progress and individual development emerged from techniques of power. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Discipline combines chronologies so no moment of life goes unused
#expands(0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 249 - Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control
#expands(0.88) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 - Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines
#expands(0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247 - Discipline sorts behavior into a graded continuum, not a simple prohibition
#expands(0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 279