Subjectivation regimented by time: the use of the clock in the disciplinary device

Abstract

Based on the systematization of the concepts offered by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, in the present work, an analysis and description of the role played by the clock as an element of the device used in the process of creating the disciplinary subject and subjectivity is made. Considering the technical object as a formed matter that displays in its use a diagram of power projected by the biopolitical discourse of capitalist society. In this case, there is the relationship between the use of the clock and the new way of living time according to the statements that formalize the disciplinary society. To do this, a brief socio-historical analysis of the process in which this object began to be used to generate disciplined behavior in convents since the 7th century is carried out, and which would end up being used in the disciplinary spaces themselves. Pointing out in a general way the process of mutation of the practices related to an organic time that gradually adapt to a mechanical time. Which applied to the body and its movements results in discipline, that is, a way of directing the movement that shapes a useful subject for the production and reproduction of capitalism.