Dataism disavows ideology yet constitutes a new ideology of digital totalitarianism

Evidence

Now, transparency is the buzzword of the second Enlightenment. Data are supposed to be a pellucid medium. As Brooks describes them, data afford a ‘transparent and reliable lens’. The imperative of the second Enlightenment declares: everything must become data and information. The soul of the second Enlightenment is data totalitarianism, or data fetishism. Although it announces that it is taking leave of all ideology, dataism itself is an ideology. It is leading to digital totalitarianism. Therefore, a third Enlightenment is called for – in order to shine a light on how digital enlightenment has transformed into a new kind of servitude. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 130

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Transparency is a productivity device, not a political value — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 33; Big Data’s total memory makes it exceed Bentham’s forgetful panopticon — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 142; The digital economy functions as legitimating hegemonic ideology for capitalism — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 16 (+6 more)

Related

• Dataism masks itself as anti-ideology while functioning as a controlling ideology. (similarity 0.92)
• The belief that all life should become data is ideological, not neutral. (similarity 0.80)
• The digital economy functions as legitimating hegemonic ideology for capitalism (similarity 0.79)
• Transparency is a productivity device, not a political value (similarity 0.79)
• Surveillance capitalism is economic imperatives, not the technologies they employ (similarity 0.78)
• Big Data’s total memory makes it exceed Bentham’s forgetful panopticon (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism is a species of power comparable in significance to totalitarianism #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1699
• The digital economy functions as legitimating hegemonic ideology for capitalism #expands (0.78) — Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism, 16
• Utopian techno rhetoric is strategic propaganda that legitimates surveillance capitalism’s drive toward totality #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1284
• Ubiquitous networked computing constitutes an unprecedented form of power unlike prior totalitarianism #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1265
• Ideological scientificality overrides factual reality in totalitarian action #complicates (0.72)