Modern discipline operates internally to produce the individual, not externally to restrict it

Evidence

Disciplines work within local domains and institutions, entering into particular social processes, breaking them down into separate functions, rearranging the parts, increasing their efficiency and precision, and reassembling them into more productive and powerful combinations. These methods produce the organised power of armies, schools, and factories, and other distinctive institutions of modern nation-states. They also produce, within such institutions, the modern individual, constructed as an isolated, disciplined, receptive, and industrious political subject. Power relations do not simply confront this individual as a set of external orders and prohibitions. His or her very individuality, formed within such institutions, is already the product of those relations. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 26

Categorization

• DEFINE: Crisply defines what distinguishes disciplinary power from restrictive/exterior power, the book’s central concept.
• XREF: Connects to the standing history of Foucault-derived critique of institutions; parallels the Diamond District material on how proprietary structures produce particular subject-positions.