Partitioned cellular space lets authority track, assess, and control each individual continuously

Evidence

But the principle of ‘enclosure’ is neither constant, nor indispensable, nor sufficient in disciplinary machinery. This machinery works space in a much more flexible and detailed way. It does this first of all on the principle of elementary location or partitioning. Each individual has his own place; and each place its individual. Avoid distributions in groups; break up collective dispositions; analyse confused, massive or transient pluralities. … Its aim was to establish presences and absences, to know where and how to locate individuals, to set up useful communications, to interrupt others, to be able at each moment to supervise the conduct of each individual, to assess it, to judge it, to calculate its qualities or merits. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 221

Categorization

• XREF: Partitioning location-by-location is the spatial arm of panopticism — the telescreen’s greatest extension is that every home becomes a partitioned cell where the watcher need not be physically present. — connects to: A centered watcher who sees all cells is inevitably visible from all cells — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 295; Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848; Partitioning cells eliminates the dangerous coagulation of uncontrolled crowds — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 221 (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the second disciplinary technique: elementary location, each body in its own place.

Related

• Spatial assignment controls pupil movement and verifies each individual’s location. (similarity 0.84)
• Classroom placement was used to control pupils through engineered social proximity. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Spatial assignment controls pupil movement and verifies each individual’s location. #expands (0.92) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 227
• Prisoner behavior control generated a continuous individualizing knowledge #expands (0.90) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 202
• Partitioning cells eliminates the dangerous coagulation of uncontrolled crowds #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 221
• Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control #expands (0.82) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848
• Permanent centralized registration mediated every subject’s relation to power #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 306