Totalitarian police aim to map all social relations of the entire population
Evidence
This surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration: reports from the syndics to the intendants, from the intendants to the magistrates or mayor. At the beginning of the ‘lock up’, the role of each of the inhabitants present in the town is laid down, one by one; this document bears ‘the name, age, sex of everyone, notwithstanding his condition’: a copy is sent to the intendant of the quarter, another to the office of the town hall, another to enable the syndic to make his daily roll call. Everything that may be observed during the course of the visits – deaths, illnesses, complaints, irregularities – is noted down and transmitted to the intendants and magistrates. … The relation of each individual to his disease and to his death passes through the representatives of power, the registration they make of it, the decisions they take on it. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 306 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Total social mapping enables obliterating people without any trace; Permanent centralized registration mediated every subject’s relation to power — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 306
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Broader Connections
- Total social mapping enables obliterating people without any trace
#expands(0.85) - Permanent centralized registration mediated every subject’s relation to power
#expands(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 306