Permanent measurement systems produce unending anxiety that periodic review avoided

Evidence

The difference between the old/heavy and new/light inspection system corresponds precisely to Kafka’s distinction between ostensible acquittal and indefinite postponement, outlined above. With ostensible acquittal, you petition the lower court judges until they grant you a non-binding reprieve. You are then free from the court, until the time when your case is re-opened. Indefinite postponement, meanwhile, keeps your case at the lowest level of the court, but at the cost of an anxiety that has never ends. (The changes in OFSTED inspections are mirrored by in the change from the Research Assessment Exercise to the Research Excellence Framework in higher education: periodic assessment will be superseded by a permanent and ubiquitous measurement which cannot help but generate the same perpetual anxiety.) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 103

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels earlier chapters (zero says so) on Kafka’s ostensible acquittal vs indefinite postponement, which chapter 6 now applies to audit reform. — connects to: Vague, ever-reviewable assessment criteria generate functional anxiety in workers. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1660; Feeling watched matters, but actual inspected time must also be maximized — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 153; Light-touch inspection regimes outsource surveillance inward and generate permanent anxiety — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 103

Related

• Light-touch inspection regimes outsource surveillance inward and generate permanent anxiety (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Light-touch inspection regimes outsource surveillance inward and generate permanent anxiety #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 103
• Vague, ever-reviewable assessment criteria generate functional anxiety in workers. #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1660
• Feeling watched matters, but actual inspected time must also be maximized #expands (0.75) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 153