The body politic is a set of material techniques, not a metaphor

Evidence

One would be concerned with the ‘body politic’, as a set of material elements and techniques that serve as weapons, relays, communication routes and supports for the power and knowledge relations that invest human bodies and subjugate them by turning them into objects of knowledge. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 76

Categorization

• DEFINE: Foucault’s revision of the ‘body politic’ as literal material relays and techniques — machinery the telescreen instantiates.
• XREF: The telescreen is precisely such a material ‘communication route’ that invests and subjugates bodies by making them objects of knowledge. — connects to: Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 234

Related

• A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.80)
• Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology (similarity 0.79)