The examination replaces ceremony by making each person’s own particularity a status

Evidence

The examination as the fixing, at once ritual and ‘scientific’, of individual differences, as the pinning down of each individual in his own particularity (in contrast with the ceremony in which status, birth, privilege, function are manifested with all the spectacle of their marks) clearly indicates the appearance of a new modality of power in which each individual receives as his status his own individuality, and in which he is linked by his status to the features, the measurements, the gaps, the ‘marks’ that characterize him and make him a ‘case’. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 298

Categorization

• XREF: Reads directly against the analytic thesis: the telescreen-examination seals the subject’s identity as a perpetual case file. — connects to: Examinations normalize subjects and differentiate their abilities simultaneously — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 240; The examination unites surveillance and normalizing judgment to fabricate individuality — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 299; Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174 (+1 more)

Related

• The examination unites surveillance and normalizing judgment to fabricate individuality (similarity 0.86)
• Examinations normalize subjects and differentiate their abilities simultaneously (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The examination unites surveillance and normalizing judgment to fabricate individuality #complicates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 299
• Discipline judges individuals themselves, not just their acts #complicates (0.78) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 279
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174