Managerialist surveillance generates anxiety deliberately, not as a side effect

Evidence

If we refuse to accept neoliberalism’s rationales — that control systems brought in from business were intended to improve workers’ efficiency — then it becomes clear that the anxiety produced by the REF and other managerialist mechanisms is not some accidental side-effect of these systems — it is their real aim. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1726

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: This is the chapter’s central inversion — anxiety as the designed product, not byproduct — that reframes the whole compliance-with-loathed-systems puzzle of capitalist realism.
• XREF: Directly echoes the REF opening about loathed-but-complied-with systems and generalizes the chapter’s thesis beyond academia. — connects to: Light-touch inspection regimes outsource surveillance inward and generate permanent anxiety — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 103; Managerial anxiety is the intended product, not a side effect; Managerial surveillance techniques in education deliberately spread anxiety and erode teacher autonomy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2215

Broader Connections

• Managerial anxiety is the intended product, not a side effect #corroborates (0.97)
• Managerial surveillance techniques in education deliberately spread anxiety and erode teacher autonomy #expands (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2215