Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience

Evidence

What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over one’s own life and authorship of one’s own experience. What is at stake is the inward experience from which we form the will to will and the public spaces to act on that will. What is at stake is the dominant principle of social ordering in an information civilization and our rights as individuals and societies to answer the questions Who knows? Who decides? Who decides who decides? — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what is actually at stake in surveillance capitalism: individual sovereignty and the will to will, not just personal data.
• XREF: connects to: Autonomy is threatened by capitalism’s mutual implication of life and technology — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 566; Compliance with surveillance regimes can threaten the minimal integrity of selfhood — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 501; Data exploitation resembles capitalism’s free ride on uncommodified life, not factory labor — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 326 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1566
• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #contradicts (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45
• Surveillance capitalism aims to produce guaranteed outcomes rather than impose behavioral norms #contradicts (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 629
• Surveillance capitalism operates through Big Other to engineer behavior rather than souls #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1196