Meliana

“We're all a bunch of clowns. If you want to see a farce, look in the mirror.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Flowers of Buffoonery

“Place the bodies in a little world of signals to each of which is attached a single, obligatory response: it is a technique of training, of dressage, that ‘despotically excludes in everything the least representation, and the smallest murmur’; the disciplined soldier ‘begins to obey whatever he is ordered to do; his obedience is prompt and blind; an appearance of docility, the least delay would be a crime”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“Thus the Christian School must not simply train docile children; it must also make it possible to supervise the parents, to gain information as to their way of life, their resources, their piety, their morals.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“Through this technique of subjection a new object was being formed; slowly, it superseded the mechanical body the body composed of solids and assigned movements, the image of which had for so long haunted those who dreamt of disciplinary perfection.

This new-object is the natural body, the bearer of forces and the seat of duration; it is the body susceptible to specified operations, which have their order, their stages, their internal conditions, their constituent elements. In becoming the target for new mechanisms of power, the body is offered up to new forms of knowledge. It is the body of exercise, rather than of speculative physics; a body manipulated by authority, rather than imbued with animal spirits; a body of useful training and not of rational mechanics, but one in which, by virtue of that very fact, a number of natural requirements and functional constraints are beginning to emerge.”
― Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison