The Egyptian army pioneered indirect representational techniques of discipline
Evidence
More than in other fields in the wider society, it was the army and the military institution in general that exhibited a clearer understanding of this new conception of power and it is by comparing the systems of punishment in the military and the civilian sectors that one can understand the logic that informed these new techniques of power. To see how the army differed from society at large in this respect, a number of civilian laws are compared below to a couple of military laws that were passed to regulate life in the military schools and camps. The aim of this comparison is to see how imprisonment, in particular, as the extreme case of punishment by internment, was used as a means of imposing discipline and how the military laws in general were different from civilian ones in stressing indirect, representational techniques of exhibiting power. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 692
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the birth of the modern Egyptian army — the military institution as the cutting edge of new power techniques. — connects to: Prussian discipline redefined the army as an artificial machine; Egyptians first noticed French military discipline as sign-based communication; Egyptian reformers conceived schooling, assembly, and press as one disciplinary apparatus (+12 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Prussian discipline redefined the army as an artificial machine; Egyptians first noticed French military discipline as sign-based communication; Egyptian reformers conceived schooling, assembly, and press as one disciplinary apparatus (+12 more)