Institutions laicized religious minute-discipline into technical control of everyday life
Evidence
The meticulousness of the regulations, the fussiness of the inspections, the supervision of the smallest fragment of life and of the body will soon provide, in the context of the school, the barracks, the hospital or the workshop, a laicized content, an economic or technical rationality for this mystical calculus of the infinitesimal and the infinite. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 217
Categorization
- XREF: The transfer from religious asceticism to secular institutions parallels how the panopticon transfers from penal architecture to domestic and mental spaces. — connects to: Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 230; Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 244; Panopticism extends discipline from enclosed quarantine to every distant element — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 339 (+10 more)
- DEFINE: Clarifies that disciplinary micro-practice originates in theological asceticism before being secularized.
Related
- Discipline repurposed religious ascetic exercise toward indefinite worldly domination. (similarity 0.83)
- Disciplinary time-tables descend directly from monastic rules (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Secular institutions achieved large-scale cooperation by usurping religion’s community-building role
#corroborates(0.90) - Secular institutions replace religion as the main motivator of prosocial behavior.
#corroborates(0.88) - Secular welfare states displaced religion by replicating its cooperative functions
#corroborates(0.85) - Strong secular institutions substitute for and undermine belief in God
#corroborates(0.80) - Disciplines function as machinery for capitalizing and accumulating time
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 239 - Modern classification of cultures secularized earlier religious structures
#expands(0.72) - Reforms divide into secular, religion-conforming, and religion-opposed species
#expands(0.72) — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 955