Historical threat imagination centered on state power left society unprepared for corporate surveillance

Evidence

For now we can recognize that over the centuries we have imagined threat in the form of state power. This left us wholly unprepared to defend ourselves from new companies with imaginative names run by young geniuses that seemed able to provide us with exactly what we yearn for at little or no cost. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 164

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier notes on noise/soundscape power dynamics and communication-as-culture framings of domination. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism deliberately exploits its historical conditions rather than arising accidentally — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 65; Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45; Intrinsic conformity outweighs state surveillance as a threat — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New…, 35

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism deliberately exploits its historical conditions rather than arising accidentally #corroborates (0.82) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 65
• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #expands (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45