Surveillance capitalism treats humans as dispossessed natural resources denied self-determination.

Evidence

In this future we are exiles from our own behavior, denied access to or control over knowledge derived from its dispossession by others for others. Knowledge, authority, and power rest with surveillance capital, for which we are merely “human natural resources.” We are the native peoples now whose tacit claims to self-determination have vanished from the maps of our own experience. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 318

Categorization

• XREF: The native-peoples metaphor echoes earlier references to ‘virgin wood’ and colonial dispossession metaphors; connects to broader critique of platforms as extractive empires. — connects to: Surveillance capitalism formally abandons capitalism’s historic reciprocity with workers and consumers. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1586; Surveillance capitalism aims to dominate human nature rather than external nature. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1633; Industrial capitalism damaged nature where surveillance capitalism damages human nature. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1099 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Surveillance capitalism aims to dominate human nature rather than external nature. #expands (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1633
• Industrial capitalism damaged nature where surveillance capitalism damages human nature. #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1099
• Surveillance capitalists exclude individuals because awareness is friction against knowledge production #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1027
• Surveillance capitalism constitutes a coup against the people disguised as personalization #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1627
• Untamed surveillance capitalism eliminates all possibility of private refuge #expands (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1557
• Surveillance capitalists claim market freedom while dismantling the ignorance it was premised on #corroborates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1578