Datafication may disrupt autonomy at the level of self-boundedness itself
Evidence
This takes us to a third and more fundamental disruption to autonomy. What if capitalist data relations trouble the very basis of autonomy, the minimal boundedness that underlies the very possibility of being a self? What if datafication, not just potentially but in principle and by design, interferes with the self’s space of movement that is its “own”? — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 500
Categorization
- QUESTION: A core contested claim in rival-school debate: does data accumulation undermine the minimal boundedness of selfhood as such?
- XREF: connects to: Data appropriation threatens the minimal space of the self — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 75; Continuous surveillance violates the bounded self-space whose absence destroys selfhood — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 508; Framing technology as autonomous disguises who profits from data extraction — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 511 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Data extraction infrastructures deform the self that autonomy and freedom depend on
#expands(0.92) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 148 - Large-scale systems enable rather than merely threaten individual self-actualisation
#contradicts(0.80) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 371 - Attention-economy distractions accumulate to erode autonomy and selfhood
#complicates(0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 403 - The actualist State-as-superior-entity theory reduces individuals to abstractions
#corroborates(0.75)