On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:13:54PM +0100, Nathaniel Roberts wrote:
> I don't know what the French word which, in Discipline and Punsish,
> gets translated as "docile" is, but, judging from the English alone,
> there may be somewhat less to Scott's worry than meets the eye.
>
> Scott, if I understand him correctly, is concerned to show that we are
> in fact
>
> "...more than just docile bodies."
Here's a sentence from The Subject and Power:
"What is to be understood by the disciplining of societies in Europe
since the eighteenth century is not, of course, that the individuals
who are part of them become more and more obedient, nor that all
societies become like barracks, schools, or prisons; rather, it is that
an increasingly controlled, more rational, and economic process of
adjustment has been sought between productive activities, communications
networks, and the play of power relations."
> I don't know what the French word which, in Discipline and Punsish,
> gets translated as "docile" is, but, judging from the English alone,
> there may be somewhat less to Scott's worry than meets the eye.
>
> Scott, if I understand him correctly, is concerned to show that we are
> in fact
>
> "...more than just docile bodies."
Here's a sentence from The Subject and Power:
"What is to be understood by the disciplining of societies in Europe
since the eighteenth century is not, of course, that the individuals
who are part of them become more and more obedient, nor that all
societies become like barracks, schools, or prisons; rather, it is that
an increasingly controlled, more rational, and economic process of
adjustment has been sought between productive activities, communications
networks, and the play of power relations."