Domination-free public communication is the only medium of institutional rationalization.

Evidence

Rationalization at the level of the institutional framework can only take place through the medium of linguistically mediated interaction itself, namely by releasing the barriers to communication. Public and unimpeded communication, free from relations of domination, concerning the appropriateness and desirability of principles and standards that can serve as guides to action, in the light of the sociocultural repercussions of subsystems of purposive action that are continuing to developcommunication of this sort at every level of the political and repoliticized processes of forming a consensus is the only medium in which something approaching `rationalization’ is possible. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 677

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Habermas’s reworking of ‘rationalization’ as communicative rather than instrumental, distinguishing it from Weber’s version.
• XREF: Directly contrasts with the negative diagnosis of Dialectic of Enlightenment noted earlier in the chapter and with Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man. — connects to: Genuine rationalization requires domination-free public communication, not administrative expertise — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2704; Technocratic consciousness displaces the practical interest in domination-free communication. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 674; Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355 (+3 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: A paradigm-shifting move: rationalization, the villain of Weber and Adorno, is reconceived as the release of communicative barriers — the pivot that will restructure Habermas’s entire project.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Genuine rationalization requires domination-free public communication, not administrative expertise — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2704; Technocratic consciousness displaces the practical interest in domination-free communication. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 674; Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Genuine rationalization requires domination-free public communication, not administrative expertise #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2704
• Media reproduce dominant ideology without direct state command or overt bias. #complicates (0.78)
• Small networked elite groups can dominate policy debates without being a majority #complicates (0.76) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 443
• Free expression is meaningless without the social power to be heard #complicates (0.75) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 355
• Media-code structure makes revolutions and radical redistribution impossible #complicates (0.74)