Disciplines refined monastic time into ever-finer measurable units
Evidence
But the disciplines altered these methods of temporal regulation from which they derived. They altered them first by refining them. One began to count in quarter hours, in minutes, in seconds. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230
Related
- Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules (similarity 0.90)
- Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time (similarity 0.85)
- Disciplinary time breaks acts into anatomically prescribed elemental movements (similarity 0.83)
- Disciplinary time replaced initiatory mastery with graded progressive series (similarity 0.80)