Teachers must enforce discipline just as disciplinary institutions collapse under capitalism

Evidence

Teachers are now put under intolerable pressure to mediate between the post-literate subjectivity of the late capitalist consumer and the demands of the disciplinary regime (to pass examinations etc). This is one way in which education, far from being in some ivory tower safely inured from the ‘real world’, is the engine room of the reproduction of social reality, directly confronting the inconsistencies of the capitalist social field. Teachers are caught between being facilitator-entertainers and disciplinarian-authoritarians. … Ironically, the role of disciplinarian is demanded of educators more than ever at precisely the time when disciplinary structures are breaking down in institutions. With families buckling under the pressure of a capitalism which requires both parents to work, teachers are now increasingly required to act as surrogate parents, instilling the most basic behavioral protocols in students and providing pastoral and emotional support for teenagers who are in some cases only minimally socialized. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 55

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates how Deleuze’s disciplinary-vs-control transition pressures the teacher’s doubled role.
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism delegates familial discipline to overburdened teachers. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 55; Loss of expected work erodes the discipline work once imposed on the working class; Full employment is politically impossible under capitalism because firing would lose its disciplinary power — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 255

Related

• Capitalism delegates familial discipline to overburdened teachers. (similarity 0.89)
• Loss of expected work erodes the discipline work once imposed on the working class (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Loss of expected work erodes the discipline work once imposed on the working class #corroborates (0.85)
• Full employment is politically impossible under capitalism because firing would lose its disciplinary power #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 255