Controlling nature and controlling humans advance together within science

Evidence

The point which I am trying to make is that science, by virtue of its own method and concepts, has projected and promoted a universe in which the domination of nature has remained linked to the domination of man—a link which tends to be fatal to this universe as a whole. Nature, scientifically comprehended and mastered, reappears in the technical apparatus of production and destruction which sustains and improves the life of the individuals while subordinating them to the masters of the apparatus. Thus the rational hierarchy merges with the social one. If this is the case, then the change in the direction of progress, which might sever this fatal link, would also affect the very structure of science—the scientific project. Its hypotheses, without losing their rational character, would develop in an essentially different experimental context (that of a pacified world); consequently, science would arrive at essentially different concepts of nature and establish essentially different facts. The rational society subverts the idea of Reason. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 614

Categorization

• XREF: The domination-of-nature-linked-to-domination-of-man thesis maps directly onto the attention-economy critique — the apparatus that extracts attention also subjugates the attention-holder. Connects to the reader’s notes on consumption as control. — connects to: Animal exploitation historically preceded and models human manipulation. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 417; Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 703; The drive to dominate external nature extends inward to the human self (+8 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that a liberatory science would not simply apply existing method differently but produce essentially different concepts and facts — not just new data but new categories — is the chapter’s densest and most paradigm-shifting proposition.

Broader Connections

• Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans #corroborates (1.00) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 703
• The drive to dominate external nature extends inward to the human self #expands (0.92)
• Rational productivity and social control are welded together in new forms of manipulation #expands (0.88) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 551