Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body.
Evidence
These two registers are quite distinct, since it was a question, on the one hand, of submission and use and, on the other, of functioning and explanation: there was a useful body and an intelligible body. And yet there are points of overlap from one to the other. La Mettrie’s L’Homme-machine is both a materialist reduction of the soul and a general theory of dressage, at the centre of which reigns the notion of ‘docility’, which joins the analysable body to the manipulable body. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 233; Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 267; The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213 (+5 more)
Related
- The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power. (similarity 0.88)
- A disciplined whole body is the precondition of any efficient single gesture (similarity 0.84)
- Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.83)
- A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected (similarity 0.81)
- Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.81)
- Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.80)
- Architecture transforms inhabitants into docile, knowable subjects. (similarity 0.79)
- The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate. (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Permanent observation of bodies simultaneously produces knowledge of the individual and subjection
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 450 - A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 73 - Authoritarian pedagogy produces docility that serves the oppressor’s interests
#exemplifies(0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 5000 - Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints.
#qualifies(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 236 - Power identifies itself by the effort spent effacing itself.
#complicates(0.72)