![]() Evgeny Morozov: “If you don’t want to talk about capitalism then you’d better keep quiet about surveillance capitalism” (Morozov, 2019). In one prominent case, for too much surveillance, too little capitalism. Initially hailed as a “masterpiece” (Reich, 2019), Zuboff’s book has since come under fire in a number of critical academic reviews (Morozov, 2019 Ball, 2019 Haggart, 2019). The world at large is re-disclosed as having been information all along, in a perpetual state of waiting to be harvested. ![]() Quotidian features of the analog world, brushing one’s teeth, walking to work, having a coffee, are re-figured by the “life-crawling” operations of tech companies like Google and Facebook as information-rich behavior (259). ![]() In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School Professor emerita and former tech columnist, Shoshana Zuboff describes how the proliferation of digital technologies is prompting a transformation not only in how subjects experience the world, but in its fundamental nature as well. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff (Public Affairs Books, 2019) ![]()
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