Autonomy is threatened by capitalism’s mutual implication of life and technology

Evidence

Autonomy in this basic sense is the core value underlying any human social order that has the potential to be good. Yet, when all the complex detail of data practices has settled, it is this value that is being threatened today, not by technology itself but by the mutual implication of life and technology for capitalism that we call data colonialism. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 566

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts sharply with the attention/surveillance school, which typically blames platform design or surveillance infrastructure rather than capitalism per se. This is the defining causal move of the data-colonialism rival frame. — connects to: Postwar socialized risk paradigms grew out of the struggle for collective autonomy — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living with…, 250; Capitalism governs through a technological rationality so pervasive that it no longer needs ideology — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 228; Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 7 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650
• Capitalism governs through a technological rationality so pervasive that it no longer needs ideology #expands (0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 228
• Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood #corroborates (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1512
• Consumer-capitalist integration threatens rather than benefits individual freedom. #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 7
• Capitalism shapes selfhood, ecology, and institutions well beyond economics #expands (0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 69
• Financialized capitalism shapes human activity and escapes human control #corroborates (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 340
• Technology’s cultural effects are mediated by late capitalism not deterministically #qualifies (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 410
• Capitalism simultaneously destroys and expands human potential #expands (0.72) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 639
• Capitalism’s reproduction requires family, education, and media apparatuses #complicates (0.72)
• Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation #contradicts (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371
• Capitalism functions by redirecting social reproduction toward its own ends #expands (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 347