Status Updates From The Age of Surveillance Cap...

The aim is the automation of society through tuning, herding, and conditioning people to produce preselected behaviors judged as desirable by the state and thus able to "preempt instability," as one strategic studies expert put it.

The rise of instrumentarianism power...grows through declaration, self-authorization, rhetorical misdirection, euphemism, and the quiet, audacious backstage moves specifically crafted to elude awareness as it replaces individual freedom with others knowledge and replaces society with certainty. It does not confront democracy but rather erodes it from within...