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The Means of Correct Training, Michel Foucault

Foucault brings to our attention the mechanisms of power employed by the disciplinary state. Enclosed spaces that have their own rules of conduct aim to individualize and regulate the behaviour of their subjects. Collective spaces such as family, school, factories, prison or hospitals, all compartmentalize and splinter the individual's identity, thus reinforcing the technologies of social architecture. A subcategory of this is the technology of self, which relies heavily of self improvement and efficiency; the individual is motivated to invest in himself by the promise of being ranked according to a time and space based codification system.

Postscript on the Societies of Control, Gilles Deleuze