Bureaucratic planning and cultural rationalization create a totally administered society

Evidence

Marcuse took over the term “organized capitalism” developed by the Austro-Marxist Rudolf Hilferding to describe the administrative-bureaucratic apparatus which organizes, manages, and stabilizes capitalist society. Economic planning in the state, automatization in the economy, the rationalization of culture in the mass media, and the increased bureaucratization of all modes of social, political, and economic life had created a “totally administered society” that was resulting in “the decline of the individual.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 35

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precise account of ‘totally administered society’ and its component mechanisms — core vocabulary for the book.
• XREF: The ‘decline of the individual’ under administered society maps onto today’s algorithmic content delivery and consumption-as-control. — connects to: Total society makes even hope in posterity a conformist capitulation. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 114; Bureaucracy is a stylized model of society’s positional structure — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 189; Civil society functions as a management apparatus for social domination — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 229 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern bureaucracy reimagined citizens as regulated particles in a machine #exemplifies (0.85)
• Civil society functions as a management apparatus for social domination #corroborates (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 229
• Culture becomes administrable precisely by being severed from practical action #expands (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 161
• Scientific rationalism becomes an instrument of social domination #expands (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 141
• Bureaucracy is a stylized model of society’s positional structure #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 189