Big Data’s total memory makes it exceed Bentham’s forgetful panopticon
Evidence
Bentham’s panopticon still lacked an efficient recording system; it had only a ‘punishment log’ for penalties enacted and the reasons they occurred. Prisoners’ actual lives were not taken down. Big Brother had no way of knowing what inmates really thought or desired. In contrast to Big Brother, who could be quite forgetful, Big Data never forgets anything at all. For this reason alone, the digital panopticon is much more efficient than Bentham’s. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 142
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Dataism disavows ideology yet constitutes a new ideology of digital totalitarianism — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 130; Cloud capital shatters individuals into manipulable fragments of data — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 660; Data appropriation threatens the minimal space of the self — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 75 (+1 more)
Related
- Dataism disavows ideology yet constitutes a new ideology of digital totalitarianism (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Cloud capital shatters individuals into manipulable fragments of data
#expands(0.82) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 660 - Data appropriation threatens the minimal space of the self
#expands(0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 75 - A Bentham associate introduced the phrase ‘productive powers’ into Egyptian policy discourse
#responds-to(0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 634