Industrial production modes drove the shift from sovereign to disciplinary power.

Evidence

The transition from the power of sovereignty to disciplinary power followed from changes in forms of production, specifically the shift from agrarian to industrial production. As industrialization proceeded, it became necessary to discipline the body and fit it to machinic production. Instead of torturing the body, disciplinary power yokes it into a system of norms. Calculated coercion pervades each and every limb and comes to be inscribed even in the automatism of habits. The body is calibrated to be a production-unit. A ‘concerted orthopaedy’ fashions ‘shapeless dough’ into a ‘machine’. Disciplines are ‘methods which [make] possible the meticulous control of the operations of the body, which [assure] the constant subjection of its forces and [impose] upon them a relation of docility-utility’. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 55

Categorization

• XREF: Directly corroborates the learned pattern from ‘All the Pasha’s Men’ — that training manuals and rote drill in Mehmed Ali’s industrializing army produced docile soldier-machines, i.e. the same disciplinary power regime Foucault describes. — connects to: Nineteenth-century power shifted from intermittent extraction to continuous supervision of production. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 131; Changes in the economic base drive revolution in the political and juridical superstructure.; Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 232 (+1 more)

Related

• Nineteenth-century power shifted from intermittent extraction to continuous supervision of production. (similarity 0.82)
• Disciplines replaced extractive violence with a productive, non-forceful economy of power. (similarity 0.81)
• Modern discipline operates internally to produce the individual, not externally to restrict it (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Nineteenth-century power shifted from intermittent extraction to continuous supervision of production. #exemplifies (0.82) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 131
• Demographic explosion and industrialization overwhelmed the old sovereign power model #corroborates (0.80)
• Changes in the economic base drive revolution in the political and juridical superstructure. #corroborates (0.78)
• Disciplinary power shifts from marking time to shaping the act from within #expands (0.76) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 232