The sciences of man became possible only when measurement displaced ancestral status

Evidence

The moment that saw the transition from historico-ritual mechanisms for the formation of individuality to the scientifico-disciplinary mechanisms, when the normal took over from the ancestral, and measurement from status, thus substituting for the individuality of the memorable man that of the calculable man, that moment when the sciences of man became possible is the moment when a new technology of power and a new political anatomy of the body were implemented. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 300

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why psychology can only arise inside the disciplinary gaze — the ‘psycho-’ sciences are born of the surveillance reversal. — connects to: Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032; The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493; Science escaped time monopolies of knowledge but succumbed to space monopolies — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804 (+2 more)

Related

• Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins (similarity 0.80)
• Human sciences were conveyed by a bodily discipline that fused subjection with objectification. (similarity 0.79)
• Science was framed as replacing religion by giving humanity its definitive self-explanation (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins #complicates (0.80) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032
• The boundary between biological and cultural evolution is dissolving #expands (0.75) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 493
• Science escaped time monopolies of knowledge but succumbed to space monopolies #complicates (0.75) — Harold Innis, The Bias of Communication, 804
• Humans invent pseudoabsolutes to measure things since true absolutes do not exist #responds-to (0.75) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 524