Byung-Chul Han, Beyond Disciplinary Society

Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather

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Discipline is what the factory and the office and the store share with the prison and the school and the mental hospital.