A vectoralist class profits solely by moving and commodifying information.

Evidence

VECTORALIST POWER consists, therefore, in ‘the power to move information from one place to another. It is the power to move and combine anything and everything as a resource.’ So, the vectoralist class is made up of all those who control and profit from the necessary material vectoralization of information – whether that be through the industrial production of iPads, cables and microprocessors (Foxconn, Sony, Apple), through the extension of communications networks monopolized by private multinationals (Orange, Free, Verizon, Google, Facebook), through the commodification of information, images and sounds by the legal fictions of intellectual property (Microsoft, Universal, TF1, Mediaset, Fox), or through the control of the vectors along which the financing of the investments that irrigate all these businesses passes (Goldman Sachs). — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 202

Categorization

• XREF: Anticipates today’s discourse about platform rent-extraction and Big Tech monopoly power. — connects to: Bourses move reputational information as efficiently as goods — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 49

Broader Connections

• Bourses move reputational information as efficiently as goods #corroborates (0.85) — Lisa Bernestein, Opting out of the Legal System, 49