Disembedding mechanisms remove control from individuals and create collective risk
Evidence
All disembedding mechanisms take things out of the hands of any specific individuals or groups; and the more such mechanisms are of global scope, the more this tends to be so. Despite the high levels of security which globalised mechanisms can provide, the other side of the coin is that novel risks come into being: resources or services are no longer under local control and therefore cannot be locally refocused to meet unexpected contingencies, and there is a risk that the mechanism as a whole can falter, thus affecting everyone who characteristically makes use of it. — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 310
Categorization
- XREF: Directly supports the reader’s ‘faceless commitments’ thesis: Stevens’s deference to Darlington’s institutional world disconnects him from local control and refocusing capacity, leaving him vulnerable when the mechanism falters. — connects to: Indeterminacy and unexercised possibility underpin the generalization of influence; Goal-directed programming erodes power’s function as a selection-transfer mechanism.; Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 482 (+13 more)
Broader Connections
- Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets
#corroborates(0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 482 - Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them
#corroborates(0.60) - Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation
#contradicts(0.50) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371 - Functional differentiation frees individuals from role-dictated behavior
#contradicts(0.40) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 708