Discipline&Punish

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The Birth of the Prison * Michel Foucault

1."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.

  • Q

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