Torture is integral to modern disciplinary societies, not a barbaric survival

Evidence

In his important book, the Iranian political scientist Darius Rejali makes the interesting argument that, far from being a barbaric survival in the modern state as Scott’s story suggests, torture is in fact integral to it. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 499

Categorization

• XREF: Rejali-cited integral-modern-torture claim directly parallels Foucault’s disciplinary-society thesis already relevant to the Asad/Cooper vault thread about how liberal-modern categories smuggle in normalized coercion. — connects to: Torture continuing abroad exposes civilization’s inhumane core
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 499