Totalization today means unifying with an eye to power and control

Evidence

As for “totalization” itself — evidently, for postmodernists, one of the most sordid residual vices to be eradicated from the populist health and fitness of the new era — individuals, like Humpty Dumpty, cannot make it mean what they want it to mean, but groups can, and in the face of current doxa (” ‘to totalize’ does not just mean to unify, but rather means to unify with an eye to power and control; and as such, this term points to the hidden power relations behind our humanist and positivist systems of unifying disparate materials, be they aesthetic or scientific”) 21 one can only patiently review the real history of the word — somewhat as one rescues the histories of minorities or underclasses that have fallen into oblivion — and then let it go at that. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 716

Categorization

• DEFINE: Captures the contemporary doxa definition of totalize — unifying materials with an eye to power — that Jameson then contests by excavating the word’s history.
• XREF: connects to: Totalization seeks fragile control of a fragile subject in an indifferent world — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 719; Modern state power diffuses control through continuous measured mechanisms rather than personal command; Financialization operates as decentralized power through everyday financial practices — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 20 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Totalization seeks fragile control of a fragile subject in an indifferent world — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 719; Modern state power diffuses control through continuous measured mechanisms rather than personal command; Financialization operates as decentralized power through everyday financial practices — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 20 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Power grows as both the power-holder and the subjected gain freedom #complicates (0.75)
• Power grows with freedom and alternatives on both sides #complicates (0.74) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 598