Resistance to disciplinary power requires a new right, not a return to sovereignty.

Evidence

If, as Foucault says m the first two lectures, power is not deployed and is not exercised in the forms of right and law, and if it is not something that can be taken or exchanged; if it does not consist of interests, a will, or an intention; if it does not originate within the State, and if it therefore cannot be deduced from or understood in terms of the juridico-political category of sovereignty (even if right, law, and sovereignty can represent a sort of coding of power, or can even remtorce it), then neither is resistance a matter of might, or of a mght. It is therefore always outside the juridical framework of what has, ever since the seventeenth century, been called “the right to resist”: it is not based upon the sovereignty of a preexisting subject. Power and resistance confront each other, and use multiple, mobile, and changing tactics, in a field of relations of force whose logic is not so much the regulated and codified logic of right and sovereignty, as the strategic and warlike logic of struggle. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Now, an important phenomenon occurred in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the appearance—one should say the invention— of a new mechanism of power which had very specific procedures, completely new instruments, and very different equipment. It was, I believe, absolutely incompatible with relations of sovereignty. This new mechanism of power applies primarily to bodies and what they do rather than to the land and what it produces. It was a mechanism of power that made it possible to extract time and labor, rather than — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 53 (#expands, via linked claim)

In short, we have to abandon the model of Leviathan, that model of an artificial man who is at once an automaton, a fabricated man, but also a unitary man who contains all real individuals, whose body is made up of citizens but whose soul is sovereignty. We have to study power outside the model of Leviathan, outside the field delineated by juridical sovereignty and the institution of the State. We have to analyze it by beginning with the techniques and tactics of domination. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 52 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Restoring human rights requires restoring national rights, not abstract declarations.; Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296; Sovereignty by institution is founded on representation, not on transferred rights — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 110 (+2 more)

Related

• A new power mechanism, incompatible with sovereignty, was invented in the 17th-18th centuries (similarity 0.86)
• Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right (similarity 0.86)
• Subaltern forces resist rationalization intended to serve dominant interests. (similarity 0.85)
• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty (similarity 0.84)
• Resistance is internal to power relations, which never totalize (similarity 0.82)
• Analyzing power requires abandoning the juridical-representation model entirely (similarity 0.82)
• Right is best understood as implementing subjugation rather than establishing legitimacy (similarity 0.80)
• Power analysis must shift from sovereignty to relations of domination. (similarity 0.79)
• Power should be studied at its effects, not its intentions (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Resistance operates by strategy and struggle, not juridical right #contradicts (0.88) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 296
• A new power mechanism, incompatible with sovereignty, was invented in the 17th-18th centuries #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 53
• Power analysis must begin from techniques of domination, not sovereignty #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 52
• Sovereignty by institution is founded on representation, not on transferred rights #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 110