The docile body reveals natural organismic limits that discipline must accommodate.

Evidence

The body, required to be docile in its minutest operations, opposes and shows the conditions of functioning proper to an organism. Disciplinary power has as its correlative an individuality that is not only analytical and ‘cellular’, but also natural and ‘organic’. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 237

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘natural body’ resisting artificial constraint connects to the reader’s tree-grafting material about organisms imposing functional limits on imposed structures. — connects to: Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 236; Limits emerge through tacit jockeying and need unique focal qualities. — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 600; Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787 (+1 more)

Related

• Discipline replaced the mechanical body with a natural body possessing its own functional constraints. (similarity 0.86)
• Docility unites the analyzable body with the manipulable body. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Limits emerge through tacit jockeying and need unique focal qualities. #expands (0.78) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 600
• Self-knowledge of one’s limits requires a vantage point outside them #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 787