Unfettered surveillance capital, not democratic law, decides the division of learning

Evidence

As to who decides, this division of learning has been decided by the declarations and incursions of the owners of private surveillance capital as another essential condition of accumulation, enabled by the reluctance of the state to assert democratic oversight in this secret realm. Finally, there is the question of who decides who decides. So far, it is the asymmetrical power of surveillance capital unencumbered by law that decides who decides. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1028

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The division of learning is decided purely by market forces without democratic counterweights. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 597; Dominance over society’s division of learning is surveillance capitalism’s new axial principle — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 566; Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 254 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Dominance over society’s division of learning is surveillance capitalism’s new axial principle #corroborates (0.90) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 566
• Surveillance-based schooling constructs individuality only as a position in a sequence #exemplifies (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 262
• Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 254
• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power #complicates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 45