Voluntary data extraction is seductive before it is coercive.

Evidence

Illuminates AI/Communication: Egan’s sequel-by-affinity to Goon Squad imagines a “Mandala” technology that lets users externalize and share their consciousness. Placed beside Zuboff’s Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the novel illuminates the affective seductions of voluntary data extraction. A surprisingly intimate primer for surveillance studies. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 1111

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Zuboff’s Age of Surveillance Capitalism and the distinction between extraction and consent. — connects to: Fiction can reveal the affective seductions underpinning voluntary data extraction.; Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 398; Platforms extract behavioral surplus from human activity to predict and modify it. — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 809 (+3 more)
• FICTION: The Mandala technology — externalizing and sharing consciousness — is a story seed for depicting surveillance as an intimate, voluntary act.

Related

• Fiction can reveal the affective seductions underpinning voluntary data extraction. (similarity 0.88)
• Platforms extract behavioral surplus from human activity to predict and modify it. (similarity 0.81)
• Data collection is consented to out of pressing need for essential services. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Platforms extract behavioral surplus from human activity to predict and modify it. #expands (0.75) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 809
• Platform data extraction continues historical colonialism’s logic of appropriation #expands (0.70) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 398