Digitized Disciplinary System and Social Disenchantment An Analysis of Chinas Social Credit System

With the advancement in technology and big data in recent years, disciplinary systems present an increasing tendency towards digitization. Chinas digital Social Credit system, established to evaluate individuals, businesses, and local institutions trustworthiness, serves as a typical model. Through the lens of Michel Foucaults account of disciplinary power and Max Webers account of rationality and disenchantment, the paper is directed to analyze Chinas digital credit systems implications on the publics moral governance rights. Admittedly, the digital scoring system offers advantages in regard to social stability and public utility; it is suitable to Chinas ideological, historical, and geographical character. However, its digital mass surveillance, through fusing value and instrumental rationality and oversimplifying morality, aggravates the spiritual crisis of disenchantment. In return, the collective disenchantment of the public leads to problematic social and political consequences. In response, the paper offers legislative and propagandize related policy suggestions to allay the undesirable outcomes of digital discipline.