The uncontract replaces social indeterminacy with programmed machine determinism.

Evidence

The uncontract is a feature of the larger complex that is the means of behavioral modification, and it is therefore an essential modality of surveillance capitalism. It contributes to economies of action by leveraging proprietary behavioral surplus to preempt and foreclose action alternatives, thus replacing the indeterminacy of social processes with the determinism of programmed machine processes. This is not the automation of society, as some might think, but rather the replacement of society with machine action dictated by economic imperatives. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 686

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the uncontract as a surveillance-capitalism modality that preempts action alternatives, not mere automation.
• XREF: connects to: Technological determinism is a fiction; context shapes technology use — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 59; The uncontract substitutes automated compulsion for millennia of contractual social work. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 687; Mechanical determinism makes people believe history moves without them. (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Mechanical determinism makes people believe history moves without them. #expands (0.90)
• An automated state finally realizes its alienation from society. #expands (0.80)
• Colonial modernity replaced organic social unity with machine-regulated individual flow #expands (0.75)
• Trust reduces future complexity by committing to a determinate future #complicates (0.70) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 138