The classical age reconceived the body as a manipulable object of power.
Evidence
The classical age discovered the body as object and target of power. It is easy enough to find signs of the attention then paid to the body – to the body that is manipulated, shaped, trained, which obeys, responds, becomes skilful and increases its forces. … A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed and improved. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213
Categorization
- DEFINE: Provides the formal definition of ‘docile body’ that grounds any panoptic analogy.
- XREF: The docile body definition is the precondition for the internalized telescreen panopticon the reader is tracing. — 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; Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 236; Power controls the individual through the segmented, seriated ordering of time. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 242 (+8 more)
Related
- Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. (similarity 0.88)
- Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.88)
- Disciplinary power fixes a coercive link between body and object rather than extracting products. (similarity 0.85)
- Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.84)
- A body becomes a useful force only when it is both productive and subjected (similarity 0.83)
- Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body.
#expands(0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 213 - Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301 - Discipline evolved from distributing bodies to composing forces into machines
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 247 - The punished body anchors sovereign power’s manifestation
#qualifies(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 110 - A semantic slip in Aristotle’s language authorized centuries of Western corporal punishment.
#exemplifies(0.70) — , The Rod and the Child, 458