Surveillance capitalists aim to capture every corner of human experience

Evidence

This chapter and the next survey a range of rendition activities in the pursuit of economies of scope. The remainder of this chapter concentrates on extension, the first dimension of scope, as rendition operations move into the real world, seizing fresh unexpected chunks of human experience. Extension wants every corner and crevice, every utterance and gesture on the path to dispossession. All that is moist and alive must hand over its facts. There can be no shadow, no darkness. The unknown is intolerable. The solitary is forbidden. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 756

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Surveillance capitalism moves from predicting behavior to actively shaping it in real time — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 481; Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1650; Surveillance capitalism continuously intensifies the means of behavioral modification — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 37 (+4 more)

Broader Connections