{
  "id": "shock-doctrine.exploit",
  "term": "shock doctrine",
  "sense": "exploit",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 20,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "Power setting walls on a collective self while, after a sudden crossing, it has no reading of its reach, before its members resist.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "power.over",
      "set.fix",
      "collective-self.shared",
      "reach.action",
      "wall.range-end",
      "time.dimension",
      "sudden.temporal",
      "cross.pass",
      "read.information",
      "member.social",
      "resist.oppose"
    ],
    "interaction": "Resistance needs a self-read of reach; a shock erases it for a time, and a power that sets walls in that gap meets less opposition than the same walls would meet later.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "timing used as power",
      "walls set in the gap between a shock and the self's next reading"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Naomi Klein's 2007 book The Shock Doctrine argues that disasters and crises have been used to pass policies that would meet resistance at other times.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "shell-shocked.stunned",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "shell-shocked is the state; the shock doctrine is a power acting within it"
    },
    {
      "id": "consent.given",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "consent lets another set walls while stopping it is within reach; here stopping it is briefly out of reach"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "disaster capitalism",
    "shock doctrine",
    "the shock doctrine"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-shock-doctrine.exploit"
}