Khoi Nguyen’s Reviews > Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison > Status Update

Exceptional discipline moves to
1. Discipline functions as techniques for useful individuals
2. Mechanisms de institutionalize.
3. State control of mechanisms of discipline = faceless gaze. Police adds disciplinary function to role as auxiliary of justice and political instrument

Panoptic institution can be inspected by public and amplifies power.

Punishment = individual actions to whole comparisons, differentiation, rule following. Penalties normalize

Examination classify, differentiate and judge. Ritualized. Technique by power to objectify. Individuality into documentation and makes individual a case. individualization descends as power more anonymous and functional

Historical observation: intense continuous supervision through labor. Account activity, skill. Clock and clerks. Surveillance = Production and disciplinary mechanism

schools = teaching, pedagogical activity knowledge (tutors), observation. Best pupils as officers

Pyramid power distributed individuals

Politics continuation of military model to prevent civil disorder of disciplined mass

Composition of force bodies for machine
1. Body = place occupied, intervals, good order
2. Chronological series = pieces of machinery
3. Precise system of command by signals

Discipline cellular, organic by activities, genetic by time, combinatory. Tables, movements, exercises

divide duration into successive segments and organize into simple elements of increasing complexity. Exam = individuals level, same apprenticeship, differentiate ability
Lay down for individual seniority, rank, specific exercises

Control of activity

1. Timetable
2. Temporal elaboration of act by stages
3. correlation of body and gesture
4. Body-object articulation
4. Exhaustive use. No time wasting

4. Units = rank

Discipline = detail

1. Enclosure. Barracks and factories walled
2. Individual and place partitioning
3. Functional sites partitioned. Rochefort things, wards 9; verified individuals. Factories divided grids supervision through central aisle