Refashioning humans as data-open inforgs makes them continuously available for external modulation.

Evidence

Philosopher Luciano Floridi goes further, renaming the very stuff of the self in terms of information. To him, we are not exactly humans anymore but hybrid creatures that Floridi calls “inforgs.” … Inforgs are the perfect creatures for the hypernudge to rule when they have been refashioned to always be open to data flows and so continuously available for modulation. But by what? Presumably by some form of intelligence? We could bet everything on artificial intelligence, but few have taken this step. Perhaps modulation by human intelligence exercised at the collective level? US West Coast evangelist Kevin Kelly comes close to this when he celebrates the “technium” (his term for the supposed collective “autonomy” that develops from “the feedback loops in the technological system”). But why believe humans are intelligent at a collective level while ignoring or recklessly overriding humans’ ability to be independently intelligent at the individual level? — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 479

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Floridi’s ‘inforgs’ and Kelly’s ‘technium’ as rival constructs for the datafied subject.
• XREF: The ‘hypernudge’ echoes Yeung’s concept of algorithmic nudging from earlier surveillance-literature reading; connects to attention manipulation debates. — connects to: Platforms reconfigure human life to continuously produce extractable data streams. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 45; Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 411; Continuous surveillance archives make every life retrospectively traceable across space and time. (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism exploits both extraction and our voluntary surrender via interfaces #complicates (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 734
• Continuous connection converts lived activity into machine-readable data and a branded, conditional ‘truth’. #expands (0.88) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 401
• Platform data extraction operates as a continuous cache-gathering of social life. #expands (0.85) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 411
• Surveillance capitalism fuses every moment of user empowerment with simultaneous data plunder. #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 163
• Voluntary data extraction is seductive before it is coercive. #complicates (0.82) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1111
• Researchers aim to translate every physical space and behavior into searchable information #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 650
• Continuous surveillance archives make every life retrospectively traceable across space and time. #corroborates (0.78)