Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power.
Evidence
For the old principle of ‘levying-violence’, which governed the economy of power, the disciplines substitute the principle of ‘mildness-production-profit’. These are the techniques that make it possible to adjust the multiplicity of men and the multiplication of the apparatuses of production (and this means not only ‘production’ in the strict sense, but also the production of knowledge and skills in the school, the production of health in the hospitals, the production of destructive force in the army). — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 343
Categorization
- DEFINE: Captures the core shift from ‘levying-violence’ to ‘mildness-production-profit’ — the theoretical pivot the reader’s analysis needs.
- XREF: This is the very move the telescreen dramatizes: internalized self-policing is milder and cheaper than overt physical coercion. — connects to: Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73
Related
- Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology (similarity 0.85)
- Disciplinary power aims at maximum effect at minimum cost and resistance. (similarity 0.84)
- Disciplinary power produces individuals rather than suppressing them. (similarity 0.83)
- Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.82)
- Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus (similarity 0.81)
- Industrial production modes drove the shift from sovereign to disciplinary power. (similarity 0.81)
- Power that activates self-motivation is more efficient than coercive discipline. (similarity 0.80)
- Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.80)
- Contemporary power increasingly operates through permissiveness rather than prohibition. (similarity 0.79)
- Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.79)
- Modern discipline operates internally to produce the individual, not externally to restrict it (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology
#expands(0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73