In his book, Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault considers the 18th-century automata as models for human body and social order (Foucault 1977). Consequently, the mechanistic conception of human body needs to be read in two registers: the anatomico-metaphysical register as constitutedmainly through Cartesian mind/body duality, and the technico-political register that was constituted by empirical methods of the state for disciplining the operations of the body through the army, the school, and the hospital. In the context of these two registers, the
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Interrogating Modes of Digital Labor