Surveillance capitalism’s behavioral modification creates heteronomous individuals contrary to democratic ideals

Evidence

The new global means of behavioral modification that we see under construction at Facebook and Niantic represent a new regressive age of autonomous capital and heteronomous individuals, when the very possibilities of democratic flourishing and human fulfillment depend upon the reverse. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1003

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Industrial society’s liberties themselves capture populations as a captive audience — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2582; Automated surveillance threatens the open-ended self-transformative capacity that defines selfhood — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 489; Compliance with surveillance regimes can threaten the minimal integrity of selfhood — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 501 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism functions as a profoundly antidemocratic social force #expands (0.95) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1643
• Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood #expands (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1512
• Surveillance capitalism operates through Big Other to engineer behavior rather than souls #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1196
• Surveillance capitalism’s behavioral modification now targets everyone rather than just captives #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1025
• Surveillance capitalism’s closed loops suffocate the inwardness enabling moral judgment #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1494
• Surveillance capitalism aims to produce guaranteed outcomes rather than impose behavioral norms #qualifies (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 629
• Surveillance capitalism constitutes a privatized market-based collectivism #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1603