Surveillance capitalism is a species of power comparable in significance to totalitarianism

Evidence

CHAPTER TWELVE Two Species of Power I. A Return to the Unprecedented II. Totalitarianism as a New Species of Power III. An Opposite Horizon IV. The Other-One V. Against Freedom VI. A Technology of Human Behavior VII. Two Utopias CHAPTER THIRTEEN Big Other and the Rise of Instrumentarian Power I. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1699

Categorization

• QUESTION: The chapter heading ‘Totalitarianism as a New Species of Power’ invites comparison between instrumentarian and totalitarian power worth examining further.
• XREF: connects to: Totalitarian susceptibility persisted from technological and economic developments — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2029; Calling surveillance capitalism totalitarianism obscures rather than clarifies its threat. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1119; Surveillance capitalism’s power is actually the opposite of Orwell’s Big Brother — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1176 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45
• Surveillance capitalism aims to produce guaranteed outcomes rather than impose behavioral norms #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 629
• Surveillance capitalism operates through Big Other to engineer behavior rather than souls #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1196