Extraction imperative forces relentless automated tracking and framing experience as free raw material

Evidence

This dynamic established the extraction imperative, which expresses the necessity of economies of scale in surplus accumulation and depends upon automated systems that relentlessly track, hunt, and induce more behavioral surplus. Google imposed the logic of conquest, defining human experience as free for the taking, available to be rendered as data and claimed as surveillance assets. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1067

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the extraction imperative and the logic of conquest — key framework terms.
• XREF: connects to: Framing technology as autonomous disguises who profits from data extraction — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 511; Self-tracking autonomy comes at the cost of permanent submission to external data systems — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 516; Willing personal tracking normalizes tracking as infrastructure in less voluntary domains — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 415 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Data extraction infrastructures deform the self that autonomy and freedom depend on #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 148
• Surveillance capitalism exploits both extraction and our voluntary surrender via interfaces #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 734
• Digital immediacy obscures the material extraction beneath it #expands (0.75) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 331
• Surveillance capitalism economies of scale apply to extraction, not production #qualifies (0.70) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 274