"The overemphasis of the individualization of discipline" being spot-on...? Well, I want to nitpick the exact wording, but I'll go with what I think you really mean: YES, tons of people's motivation to pursue discipline / get things done comes from outside oneself, and the potential for power in that is overlooked!!
There's a quote on Julia Evans' blog (Oh! That's something you should go see if you haven't, Tania!) where she quotes someone saying, "Every program I create / talk I write has a specific INDIVIDUAL in mind [as a target audience / recipient that the work is purposed for]."
I was literally just talking to someone yesterday about how being part of a group can lend you agency or it can rob agency from you. This zany whitepaper (though maybe I should use that term loosely here!) from 2020 seemed to give a good model for one version of the "lends agency to you" possibilities: https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth/
"The overemphasis of the individualization of discipline" being spot-on...? Well, I want to nitpick the exact wording, but I'll go with what I think you really mean: YES, tons of people's motivation to pursue discipline / get things done comes from outside oneself, and the potential for power in that is overlooked!!
There's a quote on Julia Evans' blog (Oh! That's something you should go see if you haven't, Tania!) where she quotes someone saying, "Every program I create / talk I write has a specific INDIVIDUAL in mind [as a target audience / recipient that the work is purposed for]."
I was literally just talking to someone yesterday about how being part of a group can lend you agency or it can rob agency from you. This zany whitepaper (though maybe I should use that term loosely here!) from 2020 seemed to give a good model for one version of the "lends agency to you" possibilities: https://otherinter.net/research/squad-wealth/