Discipline&Punish

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The Birth of the Prison * Michel Foucault

"strict discipline'--art of correct training (Walhausen) Chief function of the disciplinary power is to "train", rather than to select and to levy. "TRAIN"--change a single uniform mass to a multiplicity of individual elements.(regards individual_fuctions as a calculated but permanent economy) "The Success of disciplinary power"--use of simple instruments/hierarchical observation/normalizing judgement/combination in a procedure of examination.

  • Hierarchical Oberservation

Ideal model:the military camp-- artificial city built and reshaped at will/seat of a power must be all stronger,more discreet/in it are effective over armed men. This model of the camp/its underlying principle was found in urban development,in the construction of working-class housing estates,hospitals,asylums,prisons,schools. e.g.:hospital ,school two requirements: an uninterrupted network be discreet enough not to weigh down with an inert mass on the activety to be disciplined



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page 2:

 1.and in which,conversly...visible.WHY MEANS OF COERCION MAKE THOSE VISIBLE?
 2.side by side...a new knowledge of man.

page 3:

 1.the camp was to the rather....optics.