Hyperspecialized institutions cease being functional and become deterrence nuclei

Evidence

These factories and these universities are no longer factories nor universities, and the hypermarkets no longer have the quality of a market. Strange new objects of which the nuclear power station is without a doubt the absolute model and from which radiates a kind of neutralization of the territory, a power of deterrence that, behind the apparent function of these objects, without a doubt constitutes their fundamental function: the hyperreality of functional nuclei that are no longer at all functional. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 264

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the hyperreality of ‘functional nuclei that are no longer at all functional’ — a key term for the reader’s theoretical rigor.
• XREF: The ‘black box,’ polyfunctional-nucleus account of universities and factories directly parallels Jameson’s treatment of postmodern institutions as simulations of their referents. — connects to: Liberties lose their critical force once institutionalized — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 106; Outdated institutional partitions persist by tradition long after their logic expires — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992; Successful institutions can dissolve from their own premature success — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 314

Broader Connections

• Liberties lose their critical force once institutionalized #expands (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 106
• Outdated institutional partitions persist by tradition long after their logic expires #exemplifies (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1992