Compliance with surveillance regimes can threaten the minimal integrity of selfhood

Evidence

Two characters, a keen young recruit (Mae) and her more experienced mentor (Annie), each want to live a life that harmonizes with the surveillance practices on which the Circle’s business model depends. They want to but cannot—at least not without a sanity-threatening struggle. At risk is not just the ability of these characters to direct their lives but their basic sense of themselves as selves: the minimal integrity without which they fail to be selves at all. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 501

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s attention/surveillance school concern: individual autonomy vs. platform power. Also resonates with themes in Naqvi’s Home Boy around identity under surveillance. — connects to: Security regimes prioritize survival at the cost of becoming ourselves — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 487; Surveillance harms by invading the self’s space on another’s behalf. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 471; Privacy is the minimal self-integrity that underlies all cultural constructions — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 505 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1512
• Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650
• Surveillance capitalism’s behavioral modification creates heteronomous individuals contrary to democratic ideals #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1003
• Unpredictable surveillance produces self-surveillance and disempowerment in its targets #corroborates (0.78) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 482
• External surveillance becomes internalized as self-imposed bodily discipline #corroborates (0.72) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 512