"The problem is that these images individualise an economic and political issue, and focus our attention on passive victims awaiting external assistance".
Sarah El-Alfy, education officer at Goldsmiths student union, says that the decision was made as it would be unfair to individualise students and spend time checking every single watch that came into the exam room.
"The collectivity of the game, at a time when we further individualise ourselves on networks like Facebook, feels significant to me," he says.
The boom in offbeat funerals, attended in the case of Mr Horsley by mourners dressed in fishnet stockings and leather hotpants marching through the streets of London's Soho, is a manifestation of what funeral directors see as a general rise in the desire of the bereaved to individualise the 500,000 burials and cremations that take place in Britain each year.
Names are given to manmade objects such as ships to individualise them; they are borrowed – a woman's name on a ship's bow – and the how and why they came to be borrowed is often buried in the minutes of company meetings or lost for ever in the unrecorded private conversations of their owners and makers.
On present-day instruments one can individualise each voice and give plasticity to the contrapuntal progress of a fugue.
Other artists working in the same hospitals did not individualise the sitters to anything like the same extent as Tonks.
The tactic had played on workers' fear for their short-term future, encouraging them to individualise their calculations: if they lost their jobs, how would their families survive?
John Wyatt, professor of neonatal paediatrics at University College, London, warned: "Cut-off times don't necessarily fit neatly with clinical practice and doctors must continue to individualise care".
In a novel featuring the haute-bourgeoisie, it should be the author's task to prove that upper-class French families are not identical, to individualise the tall, dark, handsome Jewish intrusion and make him something more than a lustful cipher, and to make us care about the origins, not just of violence, but of his main character – in which said violence is supposed to be buried.
There have in fact been more biographies of Shakespeare this century than of any comparable figure, which like the rage for portraits of him reflects our desire to individualise a writer who so resists our curiosity.
