The examination unites surveillance and normalizing judgment to fabricate individuality
Evidence
It is the examination which, by combining hierarchical surveillance and normalizing judgement, assures the great disciplinary functions of distribution and classification, maximum extraction of forces and time, continuous genetic accumulation, optimum combination of aptitudes and, thereby, the fabrication of cellular, organic, genetic and combinatory individuality. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 299
Categorization
- XREF: Names the exact mechanism for the reading: telescreen = surveillance, Party doctrine = normalizing judgment, jointly fabricating the subject. — connects to: Examinations normalize subjects and differentiate their abilities simultaneously — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 240; The examination is a normalizing gaze that classifies and punishes through visibility — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284; The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 284 (+5 more)
Related
- Examinations normalize subjects and differentiate their abilities simultaneously (similarity 0.87)
- The examination is a normalizing gaze that classifies and punishes through visibility (similarity 0.86)
- The examination replaces ceremony by making each person’s own particularity a status (similarity 0.86)
- The examination fuses power relations with knowledge relations into one mechanism (similarity 0.83)
- Observation, normalizing judgment, and examination comprise the three engines of discipline. (similarity 0.82)
- Disciplinary power inverts the visibility of ruler onto subjects, making them the observed (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Permanent observation of bodies simultaneously produces knowledge of the individual and subjection
#corroborates(0.95) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 450 - Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets
#expands(0.80) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 482