Technocratic ideology’s core is erasing the practice-technology distinction.

Evidence

The ideological core of this consciousness lies in the elimination of the distinction between practice and technology, a mirror imagebut not the definitionof the new pattern of relations that has arisen between an institutional framework that has been deprived of power, on the one hand, and a system of purposive action that has taken on a life of its own, on the other. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2702

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Austerity experts sought to reimpose a top-down technocratic conception of knowledge — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 580; Technological development is contingent and political rather than following autonomous logic. — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 122; Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 662 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Technological development is contingent and political rather than following autonomous logic. #complicates (0.80) — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera, 122
• Culture becomes administrable precisely by being severed from practical action #exemplifies (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 161
• Austerity experts sought to reimpose a top-down technocratic conception of knowledge #expands (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 580
• Linguistic philosophy advances an ideology that deletes critical concepts. #exemplifies (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 662
• Technology’s political neutrality collapses when it becomes the universal form of production #expands (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 572