Surveillance platforms depend on the very agency they exploit.

Evidence

Because it is immanent to our very attention – which it sharpens and intensifies as it orientates and exploits it – the control exercised by Google relies on our inalienable ability to redeploy our attention in the directions that seem the most promising to us. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 233

Categorization

• XREF: This dialectic of control-lending-on-the-controlled’s-own-agency parallels Frankfurt School notions of the culture industry and Adorno on autonomy.