The norm is what circulates between disciplinary and regulatory power

Evidence

The element that circulates between the two is the norm. The norm ts something that can be applied to both a body one wishes to discipline and a population one wishes to regularize. … The normalizing society 1s therefore not, under these conditions, a sort of generalized disciplinary society whose disciplinary institutions have swarmed and finally taken over everything—that, I think, is no more than a first and inadequate interpretation of a normalizing society. The normalizing society 1s a society in which the norm of discipline and the norm of regulation intersect along an orthogonal articulation. To say that power took possession of life in the nineteenth century, or to say that power at least takes life under its care in the nineteenth century, is to say that it has, thanks to the play of technologies of discipline on the one hand and technologies of regulation on the other, succeeded in covering the whole surface that lies between the organic and the biological, between body and population. We are, then, in a power that has taken control of both the body and life or that has, if you like, taken control of life in general—with the body as one pole and the population as the other. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 268

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise definition of the norm that unites discipline and regulation — a core concept for all normalization/othering analyses.
• DEEPTHINKING: The correction that normalizing society is not just generalized discipline but an orthogonal intersection arguably redefines how to analyze any exclusionary regime — this is paradigm-level.
• XREF: connects to: Disciplinary order blends artificial regulation with natural normative processes — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 277; Disciplinary discourse rests on norms, not juridical rules — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 56; The term normative conflates two distinct kinds of evaluation. — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 502 (+3 more)

Related

• The normalizing society combines disciplinary and regulatory norms, not just expanded discipline (similarity 0.89)
• Disciplinary discourse rests on norms, not juridical rules (similarity 0.84)
• Disciplinary punishment operates by comparing, differentiating, hierarchizing, homogenizing and excluding rather than by expiating. (similarity 0.80)
• Disciplinary order blends artificial regulation with natural normative processes (similarity 0.79)
• The carceral system created the norm as a new mixed form of law (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Disciplinary discourse rests on norms, not juridical rules #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 56
• Disciplinary order blends artificial regulation with natural normative processes #expands (0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 277
• Disciplinary and biopolitical power are co-constitutive, not separate theories #expands (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 294
• The term normative conflates two distinct kinds of evaluation. #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 502
• Disciplinary power is a network function, not a possessed property #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 273
• Everyday disciplinary micro-practices form the political underbelly of legal norms #expands (0.70) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 347