Bret Devereaux

i'm reading discipline and punish, and most of it's time is spent giving shit tons of examples for a particular type of power it names discipline, which is more or less the micromanagement of people's bodies and actions.

it traces the lineage of different practices of discipline, and claims that mid 19th century they all sorta combined together into a whole way of orienting to society through discipline

think "king that takes half your crop and kills you if you resist" sorta control compared to "factory worker where you're always being observed and have a super specific set of actions your supposed to carry out and get corrected on any deviations from the norm"

obviously military has been a huge source of practices of discipline. it seems like this flavor or micro-managing discipline though only really become huge and developed round time of frederick the great and napoleon

i want to read sources about what military training like was in sparta, because my hunch is that it's hella disciplined in the standard usage of the word, but very distinctly NOT foucaults micro-managy discicpline

like, more time practicing fighting wolves, less time practicing the 18 disctinct motions involved in drawing your sword

i guess next i'd be interested in seeing how roman training compares! Bret points to it being a lot more complex and more strategic, though i wonder if the power structure of this discipline will look like the examples foucault uses from the 18th century