Everyday disciplinary micro-practices form the political underbelly of legal norms

Evidence

The minute disciplines, the panopticisms of every day may well be below the level of emergence of the great apparatuses and the great political struggles. But, in the genealogy of modern society, they have been, with the class domination that traverses it, the political counterpart of the juridical norms according to which power was redistributed. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 347

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Law changes norms even when it never produces prosecutions — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 7224; Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 232; Repeated violations of international law gradually normalize new practices — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 534 (+6 more)

Broader Connections