The prison is totalizing and unceasingly disciplinary, with no exterior

Evidence

Moreover, the prison has neither exterior nor gap; it cannot be interrupted, except when its task is totally completed; its action on the individual must be uninterrupted: an unceasing discipline. Lastly, it gives almost total power over the prisoners; it has its internal mechanisms of repression and punishment: a despotic discipline. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 362

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the omni-disciplinary, despotic, unceasing discipline that constitutes the ‘complete and austere institution’.
• XREF: The unceasing discipline with no exterior directly parallels the telescreen’s uninterrupted surveillance in Oceania — never off, never gap-filled. — connects to: The panopticon prison is sustained by a nonentity that must never exist. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 5; The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 379; Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 353 (+1 more)

Related

• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them (similarity 0.87)
• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth (similarity 0.86)
• The prison’s failure, reform, and discipline form one simultaneous carceral system (similarity 0.83)
• Prison integrated correctional transformation into legal detention from the start (similarity 0.83)
• Prison resists reform because it relays a broad network of disciplines and surveillances. (similarity 0.81)
• The public spectacle of punishment gave way to enclosed hierarchized detention within decades. (similarity 0.81)
• Prison reform is an integral part of the prison’s functioning, not its antidote (similarity 0.81)
• The panopticon prison is sustained by a nonentity that must never exist. (similarity 0.80)
• The rise of the prison institutionalized the power to punish (similarity 0.80)
• The court is subordinate to the prison, not the reverse. (similarity 0.79)
• Disciplinary penality is irreducible to the traditional penality of law and eventually invested it. (similarity 0.79)
• The prison debate wrongly focuses on correction while normalization mechanisms proliferate unchecked. (similarity 0.79)
• Foucault writes the history of the present through the prison (similarity 0.79)
• The prison’s failures were denounced at its very inception (similarity 0.79)
• Reform has always been proposed as the remedy for the prison’s failure (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The prison’s disciplinary excess over legal detention was present from its birth #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 379
• Prisons resemble schools, factories, and hospitals because one disciplinary model unifies them #expands (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 353
• Prison abolition has a long history but remains culturally unthinkable #complicates (0.75)