Surveillance capitalism has destroyed the vision of body data serving intimacy
Evidence
Before the birth and spread of surveillance capitalism, it was possible to imagine digital representations of your body as an enrichment of the intimate relationships between a patient and a trusted doctor, a mother and her child, elderly parents and their adult children. As surveillance capitalism overwhelms the digital milieu, that vision has been made ridiculous. Both the Aware Home and the telemedicine design assume that all behavioral data are reinvested in service to the human being who is the subject of these arrangements, providing serenity, trust, and dignity: a chance for real knowledge and empowerment. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 772
Categorization
- XREF: Contrasts the lost ‘bucolic’ telecare ideal against the extraction logic defined earlier in the book; connects to the shelter/refuge theme from later chapters. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1504; Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650; Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1512 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life
#expands(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1504 - Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience
#expands(0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650 - Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood
#expands(0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1512 - Surveillance capitalism aims to author people rather than destroy them
#expands(0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1062