Culture and commanded labor alike rest on the compulsion to dominate nature

Evidence

The cultural material is in exact correlation to work done according to command: and both are grounded in the inescapable compulsion to social domination of nature. … But was it possible to have undiminished happiness without undiminished terror? Adorno had praised the rescuing of Sadism' in Horkheimer's Egoism and the Freedom Movement’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 359

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the Dialectic of Enlightenment’s foundational equation binding cultural material to commanded labor under nature-domination.
• XREF: connects to: Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 703; A logic of domination justifies ruling nature via culture-nature hierarchy. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 511; Depicted nature becomes a coded endorsement of industrial domination (+14 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dominating nature chiefly becomes power over other humans — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 703; A logic of domination justifies ruling nature via culture-nature hierarchy. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 511; Depicted nature becomes a coded endorsement of industrial domination (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Nature is the object of reason as liberation, not only domination #complicates (0.87) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 826
• Human culture and the natural environment form an interdependent dialectical system. #complicates (0.85) — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 251