Surveillance capitalism grew through era-specific conditions plus deliberate political and cultural capture

Evidence

With Google in the lead, surveillance capitalism vastly expanded the market dynamic as it learned to expropriate human experience and translate it into coveted behavioral predictions. Google and this larger surveillance project have been birthed, sheltered, and nurtured to success by the historical conditions of their era—second-modernity needs, the neoliberal inheritance, and the realpolitik of surveillance exceptionalism—as well as by their own purpose-built fortifications designed to protect supply chain operations from scrutiny through political and cultural capture. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 405

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the core explanatory triad of ‘second-modernity needs, the neoliberal inheritance, and the realpolitik of surveillance exceptionalism’ as historical conditions enabling the model.
• XREF: connects to: Surveillance capitalism deliberately exploits its historical conditions rather than arising accidentally — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 65; Surveillance capitalism advanced through corporate control, lawless space, and cultural fortification against scrutiny — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 321; Surveillance capitalism feeds on the social transformations it causes — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1104 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism supplied sheltering ideologies that surveillance capitalism exploited #corroborates (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1923
• Surveillance capitalism feeds on the social transformations it causes #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1104
• Benign convenience helped surveillance capitalism escape political debate #exemplifies (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 276
• Institutionalization made surveillance capitalism’s practices appear necessary and inevitable #complicates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 388