Society of Discipline (Wordhole)

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A disciplinary society is a society where one becomes a docile body due to the presence, or threat of, constant surveillance. Disciplinary society was a term first used by Michel Foucault to describe a condition of surveillance. In disciplinary societies command is mediated through intitutions that produce and regulate customs, such as the family, school, militray, factories and hospitals.
In Gilles Deleuze´s Postscript on the Societies of Control disciplinary societies are contrasted with societies of control, which Deleuze suggest is the way contemporary (late capitalist)societies are governed.

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Postscript on the Societies of Control can be found here:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/778828?seq=4