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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/02/age-of-surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff-review
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff review – we are
the pawns
Tech companies want to control every aspect of what we do, for profit. A
bold, important book identif
I found Mozorov's massive review more interesting.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov
Felix
On 05.02.19 13:49, Patrice Riemens wrote:
> Original to:
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/02/age-of-surveillance-capitalism-shoshana-zuboff-review
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> The Ag
On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 9:00 AM Felix Stalder
> I found Mozorov's massive review more interesting.
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> https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov
Yes I totally agree. Morozov presents the most important Marxist analyses
that Zuboff doesn't bother to reference - exactly the ones t
Indirectly related to Morozov's insightful discussion of Zuboffs
"surveillance capitalism" is my own short blurb on
"surveillancism" at
http://databasecultures.irmielin.org/surveillancism (which I wrote
without having read Zuboff)
This tries to provide a
While Zuboff popularized the term "surveillance capitalism" in 2015, she
wasn't the first person who wrote about it. The underlying issues had
already been analyzed in Wendy Chun's "Control and Freedom" from 2008.
Regarding the specific surveillance capitalism of the big social media
companies, Chr
Postscript to my last posting:
I had forgot to mention Constanze Kurz' and Frank Riegers 2011
German-language book "Die Datenfresser: Wie Internetfirmen und Staat sich
unsere persönlichen Daten einverleiben und wie wir die Kontrolle darüber
zurückerlangen" ("The Data-vores: How Internet companies
On 08.02.19 03:27, Brian Holmes wrote:
> That said, to judge by chapter 1, Surveillance Capitalism is worth
> reading. It provokes and infuriates me by what it leaves out, but
> it's fascinating at points and hopefully gets better as you go.
> Morozov has written the perfect intro for a critical
Can't wait to read these.
I just started it last night but already feel like it's very reductive and
suggests that this mode of extractive capital begins in 2001 with Google
where there's a huge body of theory (autonomist Marxism etc) that explores
the rise of these tendencies from the 1960s/1970s
Felix wrote:
> Mozorov puts lots of emphasis on her lack of engagement with other
> theories of contemporary capitalism and her unwillingness to considers
> options beyond the market. And, really, not even Wikipedia is ever
> mentioned (expect as a source once) and Free Software only in relation
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thanks!
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:26 AM David Garcia <
d.gar...@new-tactical-research.co.uk> wrote:
> Felix wrote:
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> > Mozorov puts lots of emphasis on her lack of engagement with other
> > theories of contemporary capitalism and her unwillingness to considers
> > options beyond the market. An
I agree with David. Chandler's "The Visible Hand" was also written from a
business-school perspective, with a much greater flattening of all the
stakes and a much less critical outlook; but still it's a valuable book for
understanding the vertically integrated corporation, and to use as a foil
when
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