Bruno Latour, in his 1985 text "Les 'Vues' de l'Esprit: une introduction à l'anthropologie des sciences et des techniques", writes about perspective drawing as a way that we dematerialize (thus verify) knowledge. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/296
Jack Goody, in his 1977 book "The Domestication of the Savage Mind" has a nice analysis on the role of the list in ordering the world. https://archive.org/details/domesticationofs0000good (it starts at page 75).
Michel Foucault, in his 1975 book "Surveiller et Punir", argues that the modern school has very specific ways to discipline children. https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/32367111 (the relevant section is titled "The means of correct training: Hierarchical observation").
Gilles Deleuze wrote, in 1990, the "Postscript on the Societies of Control", which complements the disciplinary approach with a more fluid control. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control (it's quite short and quite good).
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