Capitalism is poised to consume its last remaining outside via data

Evidence

The result of this convenient failure is not just to renew colonialism but also to expand the scope of capitalism too, that is, the capitalism developed on the basis of historical colonialism. Through data colonialism, contemporary capitalism promises to consume its last remaining “outside,” dispossessing human subjects of their capacity as independent sites of thought and action. Resisting data colonialism becomes the only way to secure a human future not fused indissolubly with capitalism, indeed, the only way to sustain the value that capitalism claims to promote: human freedom. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 68

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth interrogating: is positing a final ‘outside’ that capitalism will soon exhaust theoretically sound, or does capitalism endlessly recreate new outsides? Debates with Gibson-Graham and autonomist Marxists.
• XREF: The ‘outside’ language directly echoes David Harvey’s The New Imperialism and Marx’s primitive accumulation. — connects to: Human life as organized through data is the new direct input of capitalism — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 160; Data colonialism expands capitalism by absorbing previously uncommodified life streams — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 68; Late capitalism survives crises by incorporating whatever previously stood outside it — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 102 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Human life as organized through data is the new direct input of capitalism #corroborates (0.90) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 160
• Data colonialism expands capitalism by absorbing previously uncommodified life streams #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 68
• Late capitalism has eclipsed Nature as society’s radical other #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 124
• Late capitalism survives crises by incorporating whatever previously stood outside it #expands (0.80) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 102
• Data extraction extends capitalism’s exploitation to all human life, echoing colonial raw-material logic #expands (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 42