Modern punishment targets liberty, not bodily pain

Evidence

The body now serves as an instrument or intermediary: if one intervenes upon it to imprison it, or to make it work, it is in order to deprive the individual of a liberty that is regarded both as a right and as property. The body, according to this penality, is caught up in a system of constraints and privations, obligations and prohibitions. Physical pain, the pain of the body itself, is no longer the constituent element of the penalty. From being an art of unbearable sensations punishment has become an economy of suspended rights. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 46

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Oceania’s deprivation of liberty and the telescreen’s regulation of behavior rather than direct bodily coercion — the disciplinarian model the reader is tracing. — connects to: Modern penality’s ideal is endless observation rather than spectacular punishment — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 353; Modern punishment targets the soul rather than the body — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 55; Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane (+6 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the new penality as an economy of suspended rights rather than bodily sensation — a precise conceptual reframing.

Related

• Modern punishment targets the soul rather than the body (similarity 0.88)
• Painless execution drugs are the logical terminus of non-corporal penality (similarity 0.87)
• Imprisonment has always retained a hidden element of physical pain (similarity 0.85)
• The reformed penalty shifted its target from the body to subtler suffering (similarity 0.85)
• The guillotine aimed to punish a juridical abstraction rather than a pain-feeling body (similarity 0.85)
• Modern penality’s ideal is endless observation rather than spectacular punishment (similarity 0.84)
• Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself (similarity 0.84)
• The principle of humane punishment remains undefined yet treated as insuperable (similarity 0.83)
• Penal power shifted its target from the body to the mind (similarity 0.82)
• The criminal’s soul is itself judged and punished, not merely analyzed (similarity 0.81)
• The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation (similarity 0.80)
• Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm (similarity 0.79)
• The respectful ‘humanity’ of the criminal became the target of correction (similarity 0.78)
• Pain was calibrated to crime, criminal, and victim by a detailed legal code (similarity 0.78)
• The example shifted from terror to the decipherable lesson of crime and punishment (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Modern punishment targets the soul rather than the body #corroborates (0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 55
• Penalty operates through the idea of pain, not pain itself #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 155
• Painless execution drugs are the logical terminus of non-corporal penality #exemplifies (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 46
• Punishment’s severity must aim at future prevention, not past harm #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 152
• Subtler punishment masked sovereign power rather than making it more humane #qualifies (0.75)
• Punishment shifted from sovereign vengeance to ensuring no crime goes unpunished #expands (0.75)