Enframing techniques proposed that individual effort could be measured and machine-coordinated

Evidence

This harmony of parts enabled a reconstructed village to offer not just a better knowledge and control of its inhabitants, but the possibility of coordinating them together in order to increase their productivity as a unit. Like the army, the new village could be thought of as a machine, generating effort out of the interaction of its individual parts. ‘The mode of construction will greatly facilitate industry (le travail) and will become in addition a valuable benefit to the future transactions of the inhabitants.’ Effort, productivity and interaction, these methods of rebuilding seemed to suggest, were individual forces which, like the village itself, could now be measured, re-assembled, multiplied, and controlled. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the concept Mitchell develops in Chapter 1 of the exhibition/abstraction order; connects to Foucault’s notion of disciplinary coordination of bodies. — connects to: Platforms fragment workers through individualized scoring to discipline labor and lift productivity — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 50
• DEFINE: Introduces the concept of enframing as a technique that treats individual effort as measurable and recombinable.