External inspection has been introjected as permanent internal surveillance
Evidence
It’s hard to believe that public services are not more clogged with bureaucracy than they were pre-Thatcher. Certainly, education is choked with the stuff… targets, action plans, log books, all of them required conditions for funding by the Learning and Skills Council, and assessed by Ofsted, whose threat no longer takes the form of an invasive external entity arriving every two or three years, but has become introjected into the institution itself, through the permanent panoptic vigilance of a bloated managerial strata determined to over-compensate in order to fully ensure it is meeting central government’s demands. This is the reality of “market Stalinism” in education. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 489
Categorization
- XREF: Directly parallels Fisher’s ch18 claim on internalized self-censorship over state propaganda — both describe external control becoming self-administered. — connects to: Workers in new bureaucracies become their own auditors under internalized surveillance; Effective surveillance is visible yet permanently unverifiable — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 313; External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512 (+5 more)
- QUESTION: ‘Market Stalinism’ is a striking oxymoron worth unpacking — how does market discipline produce Stalinist bureaucratic proliferation?
Broader Connections
- External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline
#expands(0.90) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512 - Control societies replace external surveillance with internalized self-policing
#corroborates(0.90) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 48 - Complete surveillance requires those watched to begin monitoring themselves.
#corroborates(0.85) - Surveillance controls populations chiefly through internalized self-policing
#corroborates(0.85) — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 44 - Effective surveillance is visible yet permanently unverifiable
#corroborates(0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 313 - Control shifts from external surveillance to a deterrence system internalized as the self.
#expands(0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 108 - Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force
#corroborates(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315