Surveillance capitalism converts everyday shared spaces into objects of commercial inspection
Evidence
In his declaration, Fleischer intends to establish Google’s prerogative to empty every place of the subjective meanings that unite the human beings who gather there. Yes, when we leave our home we know we will be seen, but we expect to be seen by one another in spaces that we choose. Instead, it’s all impersonal spectacle now. My house, my street, my neighborhood, my favorite café: each is redefined as a living tourist brochure, surveillance target, and strip mine, an object for universal inspection and commercial expropriation. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 445
Categorization
- DEFINE: Fleshes out what ‘dispossession’ means concretely: emptying places of their subjective, shared meanings for commercial capture.
- XREF: connects to: Corporations now command a ‘God view’ of the social world called social caching — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 580; The boundary between workplace and workforce surveillance is dissolving — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 229; Surveillance capitalism feeds on the social transformations it causes — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1104 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Surveillance capitalism is expanding from the web into everyday life
#corroborates(0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 806 - Surveillance capitalism’s first move is seizing behavioral surplus from everyday life
#expands(0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 437 - Surveillance capitalism feeds on the social transformations it causes
#expands(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1104 - Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life
#corroborates(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1504