Industrial capitalism damaged nature where surveillance capitalism damages human nature.

Evidence

Industrial capitalism followed its own logic of shock and awe, taking aim at nature to conquer “it” in the interests of capital; now surveillance capitalism has human nature in its sights. We have only gradually come to understand that the specific methods of domination employed by industrial capitalism for more than two centuries have fundamentally disoriented the conditions that support life on Earth, violating the most basic precepts of civilization. Despite the many benefits and immense accomplishments of industrial capitalism, it has left us perilously close to repeating the fate of the Easter Islanders, who wrecked the ground that gave them life, then fashioned statues to scan the horizon for the aid and succor that would never come. If industrial capitalism dangerously disrupted nature, what havoc might surveillance capitalism wreak on human nature? — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1099

Categorization

• SEED: The Easter Island parallel as the ‘industrial capital as ecocide’ parable could anchor an essay contrasting how industrial and information capitalism each consume their own substrate.
• XREF: Parallels reader’s notes on Polanyi’s embedded/disembedded economy and the double movement discussed elsewhere in their knowledge base. — connects to: Industrial capitalism both produces inattention and pathologizes it — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 61; Information civilization built on surveillance capitalism threatens to cost us our humanity. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1102; Information civilization under surveillance capitalism may deplete human nature as industry depleted nature — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 47 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Information civilization under surveillance capitalism may deplete human nature as industry depleted nature #corroborates (0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 47
• Surveillance capitalism aims to dominate human nature rather than external nature. #expands (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1633
• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #expands (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45