A thought: a potential difficulty?

F & W perhaps have different ways of seeing the same thing, especially in their respective conceptualisation of discipline as a modern expression of power. However, it is more than just a difference in the ‘level’ of their analysis perhaps? W saw the individual that existed disappear in the machine like organisation of discipline (eg in the factory or the army), whereas F sees that the ‘individual’ was artificially produced where s/he did not before exist (through knowledge, examination, analysis). This is quite a key tension, I think, and where they in some way diverge. I will have to see what implications this thought might have for the rest of my work. However they do agree that discipline has integrative effects too.