Experience is rendered involuntarily through ignorance and lack of alternatives

Evidence

Under the regime of surveillance capitalism, individuals do not render their experience out of choice or obligation but rather out of ignorance and the dictatorship of no alternatives. The ubiquitous apparatus operates through coercion and stealth. Our advance into life necessarily takes us through the digital, where involuntary rendition has become an inescapable fact. We are left with few rights to know, or to decide who knows, or to decide who decides. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 792

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what ‘rendition’ means under surveillance capitalism: extraction without consent achieved through coercion and stealth, not choice or obligation.
• SEED: Angle for a piece on the asymmetry of knowledge rights: who decides who knows, mirrored in tech’s own privacy disclosures.
• XREF: connects to: Absence is not given by objects but posited by a consciousness that negates; Chaos represents unexplored territory and ignorance. — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 196; Willful ignorance is achieved by avoiding actions that would reveal unwanted knowledge (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Absence is not given by objects but posited by a consciousness that negates #corroborates (0.78)
• Willful ignorance is achieved by avoiding actions that would reveal unwanted knowledge #qualifies (0.75)
• Chaos represents unexplored territory and ignorance. #expands (0.72) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 196