Instrumentarian society is a planned society enforcing total behavioral control

Evidence

Instrumentarian society is a planned society, produced through total control of the means of behavioral modification. Neither Skinner’s planners nor Pentland’s tuners shrink from their responsibility to wield the power that shapes the superorganism. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1394

Categorization

• DEFINE: Pinpoints the defining feature of instrumentarian society: planned total control over the means of behavioral modification.
• XREF: connects to: Instrumentarian society promises a future guaranteed free of mistakes, accidents, and random messes. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1322; Treating humans as a swarm is the foundation of instrumentarian society. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1391; Instrumentarian power governs through inducement and reinforcement rather than overt coercion — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1629 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Instrumentarian power governs through inducement and reinforcement rather than overt coercion #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1629
• Instrumented workplaces act as testbeds for extending instrumentarian control to all of society #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1356
• Massive behavioral surveillance is the precondition for instrumentarian power and all its harms #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1558
• Instrumentarian social principles operate as lived facts on current platforms #exemplifies (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1493
• Societies can be controlled through engineered pleasure rather than coercion #qualifies (0.80) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1253
• Bureaucratic planning and cultural rationalization create a totally administered society #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 35
• Instrumentarian power arises from converging surveillance capabilities and monetized behavioral surplus #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1214
• Social control operates through voluntary organizations rather than formal coercion #qualifies (0.75) — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 115
• Behavior is regulated by legal, social, and self-evaluative sanctions #qualifies (0.72)