Target-driven institutions substitute easy measurable tasks for meaningful ones

Evidence

Narrowly focused ‘exam drill’ replaces a wider engagement with subjects. Similarly, hospitals perform many routine procedures instead of a few serious, urgent operations, because this allows them to hit the targets they are assessed on (operating rates, success rates and reduction in waiting time) more effectively. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 93

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Audit targets reshape institutional activity toward whatever is measured — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 93; A performativity-driven system defines needs by their value to performance, not by suffering — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on…, 438; Measuring attention as data enables treating it as a monetizable resource (+5 more)

Related

• Audit targets reshape institutional activity toward whatever is measured (similarity 0.86)
• Performance targets distort actual work toward what is measured (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Audit targets reshape institutional activity toward whatever is measured #corroborates (0.93) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 93
• Platform metrics reduce a person’s entire value to measurable attention #exemplifies (0.90) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 12
• Measuring attention as data enables treating it as a monetizable resource #exemplifies (0.85)
• Colonising metrics create new mentalities and incentives inside organisations, not just reporting burdens #expands (0.85) — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 19
• Attention must be managed at individual, managerial, and organizational levels to achieve goals #expands (0.82) — Thomas Davenport & John Beck, The Attention Economy, 15
• A performativity-driven system defines needs by their value to performance, not by suffering #expands (0.80) — Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, 438
• Scaled-down abstract plans structure managerial attention from above #corroborates (0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 313
• Goal-directed programming erodes power’s function as a selection-transfer mechanism. #expands (0.75)