The everyday examination is an overlooked origin of modern power-knowledge
Evidence
People write the history of experiments on those born blind, on wolf-children or under hypnosis. But who will write the more general, more fluid, but also more determinant history of the ‘examination’ – its rituals, its methods, its characters and their roles, its play of questions and answers, its systems of marking and classification? For in this slender technique are to be found a whole domain of knowledge, a whole type of power. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284
Categorization
- SEED: The ‘minor history of the examination’ is an essay angle — examinations as overlooked microtechnology of power spanning medicine, school, and workplace.
- XREF: connects to: The table functioned simultaneously as an instrument of power and of knowledge — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 228; The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284; Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75 (+4 more)
Related
- The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism (similarity 0.90)
- The table functioned simultaneously as an instrument of power and of knowledge (similarity 0.86)
- Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another (similarity 0.80)
- Disciplinary power selects, normalizes, hierarchizes, and centralizes knowledges. (similarity 0.79)
- School examination made knowledge flow perpetually from pupil to teacher (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism
#expands(0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284 - Disciplinary power stays invisible while making its subjects compulsorily visible
#expands(0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 288 - Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another
#qualifies(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 75 - Power produces the individual rather than merely repressing it
#expands(0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 301 - Modern knowledge is more opaque to individuals than pre-modern local knowledge was
#expands(0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 348