Colonialism operates as an internalized state of mind, not just external domination

Evidence

In this manner, the technologies of data colonialism become what Ashis Nandy called (in the context of historical colonialism) our most intimate enemies—internalized overseers that we carry with us even when we are not connected to the network. As Nandy observes, colonialism is a “state of mind” that requires a “shared culture” between the colonizer and the colonized. Our comfortable acceptance, at least until recently, of the extractive rationalities of data colonialism indicates the extent to which our subjectivities had already been utterly occupied by data colonialism’s norms and ideologies. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 324

Categorization

• XREF: Nandy’s ‘state of mind’ frame is a key definitional element distinguishing data colonialism from purely structural attention/surveillance accounts. — connects to: Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178; Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonialism occupies the individual’s psyche, not merely the territory #corroborates (0.98) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 222
• Colonial power is internalized into the most intimate domestic and emotional spaces #expands (0.90) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1064
• Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life #expands (0.88) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178
• Colonial oppression transforms the colonized psyche wholesale rather than adding to it #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 347
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonialism involves both objective conditions and human attitudes toward them. #expands (0.75)
• Colonialism is genocidal by nature in both settler and nonsettler forms #complicates (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 383