Classroom placement was used to control pupils through engineered social proximity.
Evidence
Things must be so arranged that ‘those whose parents are neglectful and verminous must be separated from those who are careful and clean; that an unruly and frivolous pupil should be placed between two who are well behaved and serious, a libertine either alone or between two pious pupils’. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 227
Categorization
- ADDENDUM: Connects to the Grafting essay’s theme of spatial arrangement as infrastructural control — distribution of bodies as a designed technology.
- XREF: connects to: Spatial assignment controls pupil movement and verifies each individual’s location. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 227; Disciplinary space achieves obedience by merging physical layout with value hierarchies — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 228
Related
- Spatial assignment controls pupil movement and verifies each individual’s location. (similarity 0.89)
- Disciplinary space achieves obedience by merging physical layout with value hierarchies (similarity 0.84)
- Rank systems make each pupil perpetually mobile within a grid of aligned positions. (similarity 0.80)
- Discipline values the act of positioning itself, not which position an individual holds (similarity 0.80)
- Partitioned cellular space lets authority track, assess, and control each individual continuously (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Disciplinary space achieves obedience by merging physical layout with value hierarchies
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 228 - Spatial assignment controls pupil movement and verifies each individual’s location.
#expands(0.82) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 227