Technocracy: Knowledge and Power in the Information Age (Contemporary Liminality)

In what is routinely described as a ‘knowledge society’, this book argues that contemporary knowledge is systematically filtered and distorted by the requirements of the bureaucratic-managerial organisations that constitute the structural core of hypermodernity.As knowledge becomes increasingly politicised, almost every ‘fact’ with which we are presented serves an agenda. This book traces the historical and conceptual foundations of ‘governmental knowledge’.It examines how problematisation, mediation, informationalisation, and substitution translate human life into abstract representations that can be managed, manipulated, and retrojected back onto social reality.The proliferation of experts and managerial intermediaries institutionalises these processes across domains as diverse as public health, education, corporate management, and everyday digital interactions.It argues that, far from being neutral, expert knowledge instrumentalises liminality and subordinates social life and indivi