Modern state power and the fact-value split jointly enabled power-knowledge fusion

Evidence

There are, I think, two necessary conditions that combined to create the sufficient condition for this phenomenon. The first is the rise of the modern state, which has updated and refined to a state of art modes of rule that existed in obvious and crude forms under monarchical absolutism but especially under the Catholic Church; the second is the doctrine and practice of domination over nature (in its widest meaning), represented by the distinction between fact and value and expounded philosophically in the respective divorce between Is and Ought. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 168

Categorization

• XREF: The Is/Ought divorce echoes the fact-value distinction familiar from Hume and later positivism debates; parallels the rational-choice vs. social-capital grounding in the reader’s economics-focused reading. — connects to: Data relations fuse knowledge production with value extraction in one movement — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 362; MPS fused disciplines and professions into a transacademic knowledge machine beyond single disciplines — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 86