State and market institutions share a drive toward guaranteed outcomes

Evidence

Although we have become desensitized to a seemingly endless train of such examples, it is important to recognize that in these entanglements, state and market institutions demonstrate a shared commitment to a relentless drive toward guaranteed outcomes. Their mutual affinities can help us define the problem that threatens to make instrumentarian power our century’s curse. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1227

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames instrumentarian power as a shared state-market commitment to guaranteed outcomes, a usable definition of the century’s defining problem.
• XREF: connects to: Instrumentarian power aims at total certainty through a market project — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1699; Wartime government sponsorship guaranteed profits, markets, and R&D for American business — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 141

Broader Connections

• Instrumentarian power aims at total certainty through a market project #epitomizes (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1699