The carceral system created the norm as a new mixed form of law
Evidence
With this new economy of power, the carceral system, which is its basic instrument, permitted the emergence of a new form of ‘law’: a mixture of legality and nature, prescription and constitution, the norm. … The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the ‘social worker’-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behaviour, his aptitudes, his achievements. The carceral network, in its compact or disseminated forms, with its systems of insertion, distribution, surveillance, observation, has been the greatest support, in modern society, of the normalizing power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 464
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘the norm’ as the distinctive carceral-era law blending legality and nature — a crucial concept for the panoptic thesis.
- XREF: The teacher-judge/doctor-judge society parallels Orwell’s thought police: normalizing judgment claimed by every institutional role. — connects to: The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209
Related
- Carceral power is naturalized by borrowing the rationality of curing and educating (similarity 0.82)
- The norm is what circulates between disciplinary and regulatory power (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 209