The division of learning in society is the critical axis of social order

Evidence

I argue that the significance of these developments is best understood as the privatization of the division of learning in society, the critical axis of social order in the twenty-first century. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 69

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly does ‘privatization of the division of learning’ mean materially — worth tracking how the rest of the book unpacks it.
• XREF: Connects to Durkheim/social-division-of-labor framings of social order. — connects to: Cognitive capitalism blurs the work-play divide by investing in minds and social relations — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 366; The digital era shifts society’s axis from division of labor to division of learning — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 600; Knowledge production now structures social order as labor once did — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 582 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Dominance over society’s division of learning is surveillance capitalism’s new axial principle #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 566
• Postmodern mental fragmentation internalizes social division of labor into cognition itself #exemplifies (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 789