Michel Foucault — Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the Prison

993 published claims from this book.

• “Smart” objects are euphemisms for the extraction of behavioral data.
• 1970s congressional scrutiny drove behavior modification out of civilian institutions
• A citizen legal challenge invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor data transfer agreement
• A dense revolving door moved 258 people between Google and the US government
• A freely-made promise transforms uncertainty into fact by willing a future into being
• A handful of unelected executives control the world’s information and social connection
• A humane third-modernity digital capitalism remains a genuine future possibility
• A new life stage called emerging adulthood now spans ages eighteen to late twenties
• A patent proposed denying loans based on one’s social network’s credit ratings.
• A phone’s MAC address enables persistent third-party tracking unless the app randomizes it
• A prediction product’s value grows with its approximation to certainty
• A single app accessed profiles of tens of millions without consent
• A single dominant voice interface erases the boundary between self and market
• A single lightning fire erased a scholar’s entire career archive in hours
• A tiny handful of tech firms dominate third-party commercial surveillance of the web.
• A toy maker’s CEO hire signaled a shift from products to data collection
• Academia demonstrates how loathed systems still secure compliance
• Academic researchers legitimate surveillance capitalism by providing its theoretical support.
• Academic-industry partnerships allow researchers to launder around ethics review boards.
• Active Facebook interaction correlates measurably with diminished mental health
• Activists and artists now build counter-surveillance tools to achieve invisibility
• Actuation completes a new means of behavior modification aimed at guaranteed outcomes
• Addiction researchers apply a five-element framework to explain compulsive social-media engagement.
• Adolescence in the hive marks the first generation engineered behaviorally for surveillance capital.
• Adolescence was formally recognized in 1904 by G. Stanley Hall
• Adolescent development now occurs inside a commercially engineered behavior-modification regime
• Adolescents lack defenses against social pressure before identity forms
• Advertising supplied nearly ninety percent of Google’s revenue in 2016.
• AdWords’ success drove Google to surveil the entire web via AdSense
• Affective computing treats unconscious emotions as measurable behavioral signals.
• Affective computing’s originator warned of its commercial exploitation risks.
• AI-based data processing firms hold asymmetrical power over the division of learning
• Amazon deliberately opened Alexa to every device category to capture pervasive voice data
• Amazon patents a voice-sniffer that triggers offers on overheard emotional words
• American public rejected behaviorism’s claims over individual freedom
• Americans in 2016 each read roughly three fake news stories in the election build-up
• Android location data exceeds phone carriers’ detail, pinpointing users to a single building.
• Android tracked location even with location services disabled and no SIM installed.
• Anonymized medical records can be re-identified using public voter lists
• Anonymous meta-data can be reliably de-anonymized with only three public data points
• Anti-New Deal business propaganda and Cold War totalitarianism fears jointly reshaped US regulatory policy
• Antitrust regulation will not curb surveillance-capitalist extraction
• Antitrust regulators misjudged that data flows would remain separate
• Apple had reformative potential but never built the institutional forms its success demanded
• Apple’s advocacy promise was contradicted by extractive business practices
• Apple’s digital model produced record profits with explosive growth rates
• Apple’s success is misattributed to convenience instead of deeper historical forces.
• Artists reverse-engineer surveillance algorithms to exploit their blind spots
• Artists weaponize surveillance tools’ own metrics to resist extraction
• Assessing unprecedented threats through old experience leads to catastrophe.
• Asymmetries of knowledge and power divide humanity into tuners and the tuned
• Augmented-reality games can redirect global populations’ actions toward local sponsors.
• Augmented-reality games physically claim private space through GPS coordinates
• Austerity and stagnation pushed nearly half of Americans into functional poverty
• Auto companies will become data suppliers to tech behemoths rather than rivals.
• Auto insurance is being reorganized around real-time driver behavior surveillance
• Automated personality profiling can threaten well-being, freedom, or even life.
• Automated personalization exploits economic insecurity to extract surveillance forfeitures
• Autonomy literally means self-regulation, opposed to heteronomy or rule by others
• Award-winning journalism can propagate totalitarian fantasy for years without correction
• B.F. Skinner extrapolated laboratory animal behavior into grand theories of social organization
• Battery-free smart skin enables perpetual, inconspicuous ambient surveillance networks
• Becoming an autonomous self requires others who refuse to be mirrors
• Behavior modification now operates through ninety-three codified techniques in sixteen clusters
• Behavior modification resurfaced as a market project after state versions were rejected
• Behavior modification survived only by renaming itself without positive reinforcement
• Behavior-change techniques have migrated from face-to-face to automated digital tools at scale
• Behavioral control technology reached civilian society under cover of cold-war and crime panics
• Behavioral data captured passively is held to be more truthful than self-revelation
• Behavioral data collection succeeded only when conducted without subjects’ awareness
• Behavioral data shifted from improving service to reading users’ minds for ad targeting.
• Behavioral data was framed as the missing piece to complete the sensing nervous system.
• Behavioral engineered self-control masks society’s ultimate control over individuals
• Behavioral engineering once reviled is now openly embraced by tech leadership
• Behavioral futures markets are only incidentally about advertising
• Behavioral modification requires asymmetries of knowledge and power
• Behavioral modification works best when targets stay unaware
• Behavioral monitoring alone is incomplete without also modifying the behavior it tracks.
• Behavioral monitoring replaces reasons with algorithmic performance thresholds in urban governance
• Behavioral prediction from unconscious signals requires continuous workplace sensing
• Behavioral prediction markets treat people as raw material and targets, never as participants
• Behavioral surplus extraction extends from virtual spaces into physical life
• Behavioral surplus extraction forms the core logic of surveillance capitalism
• Behavioral surplus extraction from workers moved from lab to commercial market
• Behavioral surplus flows back to shape driver behavior and feed prediction futures markets
• Behavioral surplus forecasting power drives a second imperative beyond extraction
• Behavioral surplus from targeted advertising drove nearly all Google revenue by 2016
• Behavioral surplus is data used beyond improving search service quality
• Behavioral surplus profiles reveal personality through formal style, not content
• Behavioral surplus windfalls funded Google’s de facto monopoly in Search
• Behavioral-prediction markets recruit merchants and insurers into the surveillance economy.
• Behaviorism holds that free will is just ignorance of behavioral determinants
• Behaviorism inherited physics’ faith that mathematics discloses universal laws of human behavior
• Behaviorism required psychologists to treat humans as visible objects, not inner selves
• Behaviorism says self-control is just manipulating variables that determine behavior
• Behaviorism treated freedom and ignorance as synonyms
• Behaviorism’s danger is that it could become true, not that it is false
• Behaviorism’s founding goal was prediction and control of behavior, not understanding
• Behaviorist thinking originally promised equality by stressing human similarity
• Behaviorists see free will as unmeasurable stimuli, with God as a reinforcement schedule
• Beijing’s social engineering mirrors Silicon Valley’s technological solutionism
• Belated 2000 privacy legislation could have made surveillance capitalism largely illegal.
• Belief in free will functions as a defense against acknowledging environmental determinism
• Believing surveillance capitalism is inevitable is itself a form of capitulation
• Big data correlations alone cannot deliver causal knowledge to prediction systems
• Big Other reduces humans to interchangeable behaving organisms with no relationships
• Billionaire-backed radical-right networks manipulate politics through clandestine think tanks.
• Billionaires seek unchallenged power over who knows, deciding, and behavior modification
• Billions of internet-of-things sensors already operate beyond any constitutional constraint
• Bing’s data-capture scale made it profitable for the first time in 2015
• Bitcoin is fully traceable and not actually privacy-friendly.
• Book authorship is ultimately a solitary act of individual responsibility.
• Both Bush and Obama administrations saw IT progress as the chief counterterrorism response
• Both totalitarian and instrumentarian power defied comprehension when new
• Breaking up monopolies would multiply surveillance capitalist firms rather than end them.
• Britain’s 2011 riots and Occupy shared a common origin in economic inequality
• Buying one smart thermostat can require reviewing nearly a thousand contracts
• Calling surveillance capitalism totalitarianism obscures rather than clarifies its threat.
• Cambridge Analytica merely repurposed routine surveillance capitalist machinery toward politics
• Capital returns exceeding economic growth rates drive extreme income divergence
• Capitalism periodically renews itself through new organizational forms rather than fixed ones
• Capitalism’s ignorance-and-freedom assumptions stem from pre-communication-era local life.
• Capitalism’s resilience comes from its plasticity in adopting new social forms
• Casino executives aim to act on preferences invisibly, exactly like surveillance capital.
• Casino machines are engineered to maximize time-on-device and play to extinction.
• Cell-phone behavior data alone predicted location and activity with 90 percent accuracy.
• Children serve as unwitting scouts of surveillance-capitalist environments
• China’s pervasive social distrust stems from totalitarian destruction of traditional affiliations
• China’s social credit blacklist coerced repayment through restricted mobility and purchases.
• China’s social credit system is a political rather than market instrument
• China’s surveillance acceptance grew from a long tradition of unappealable dossiers.
• China’s unified social credit system remains fragmented and untested at scale.
• Chinese social credit systems apply the identical logic as Western surveillance capitalism
• Citizens resist surveillance by hiding from both the state and corporate data extractors
• Civilization’s foundational elements are being digitized and governed by intelligent algorithms
• Click-through pricing shifted ad value from views to measured engagement
• Click-wrap agreements are designed to be long and complex to deter reading
• Click-wrap contracts function as a unilateral private seizure of user rights
• Coercive behavior modification on prisoners constitutes a form of state power over mind
• Cold war panic over communist brainwashing drove CIA investment in mind control research.
• Collecting data with permission for product improvement is capitalism, not surveillance capitalism.
• College students reported zero coercion attempts in anonymous surveys
• Commercial surveillance is a constructed human choice, not inevitable in information capitalism.
• Commodification now extends to organs, surrogacy, grief, and standing in line
• Communities can claim sanctuary rights against instrumentarian power
• Companies treat measurable emotion as a predictor of spending and profit
• Competition among voice platforms is a race to corner all conversation
• Competition drives surveillance capitalism from the virtual into the physical world
• Competition drove surveillance capital from predicting behavior to shaping it.
• Computational governance’s metric requirements force a mimicry-based view of humanity.
• Computer-mediated transactions make previously unobservable behavior contractible
• Computer-vision modules are being embedded in appliances and toys to sense human behavior
• Comte coined ‘social physics’ to demand society be studied with natural-science precision.
• Congressional Republicans overturned FCC broadband privacy rules to protect surplus dispossession
• Connected toys systematically extract children’s personal data and conversations via bundled apps
• Connected TVs transmit household conversation to third parties under opaque privacy policies.
• Constant observation prevents any stable balance between self and others
• Consultants frame the connected car as a proving ground for IoT surveillance
• Consumer boycotts forged American national identity before political independence
• Consumer boycotts transformed economic power into political power in colonial America
• Consumer marketing directly adopted military counterinsurgency surveillance techniques
• Consumer rejection of surveillance practices has not slowed the market form’s success
• Consumer viewing data is sold linked to detailed personal demographics, not anonymized aggregates
• Contemporary power struggles now turn on engineered behavior modification, not class relations
• Continuous visibility under algorithmic gaze creates perpetual social-currency valuation
• Contract originates in shared wills and promises toward an uncertain future
• Contracts are collaborative social processes for confronting an unknowable future, not fixed plans.
• Conversational interfaces are prized because casual talk renders experience as surplus
• Cornering behavioral surplus is an orchestrated strategy, not merely a technical feat
• Corporate and defense funding followed academic personality-prediction research.
• Corporate data-as-asset rhetoric reframes untapped user data as a trillion-dollar revenue source
• Corporate objectives define the correct policies guiding automated behavioral modification
• Corporate speech doctrine reasserts a feudal conception of corporate self-rule
• Corporations advance surveillance incrementally and furtively rather than all at once
• Corporations invoke a self-claimed right to extract data from human bodies
• Corporations weaponize game mechanics purely to engineer customer and employee behavior
• Courts shield data companies from liability absent demonstrated economic harm
• Crises recast surveillance practices from legislative targets into mission-critical necessities.
• Daily life is now comprehensively recorded into a continuous electronic text
• Dark data rhetoric supplies the moral and legal rationale for capturing unpredicted behavior
• Data mining actively reshapes and changes human minds
• Data’s predictive power shaped Google’s response to its financial crisis
• Declarations create new social facts by describing desired changes as already true.
• Democracy in America and Britain grew from capital-labor reciprocities surveillance capitalism abandons
• Democratic checks and balances built slowness that intelligence agencies sought to bypass.
• Democratic institutional health determines how long vulnerability to the unprecedented lasts
• Democratic institutions can again produce countermeasures to abnormal accumulation
• Democratic institutions can successfully reclaim authority over the digital future from private power.
• Diabetes apps routinely access far more phone data than they need
• Digital assistants convert inner life into calculable behavioral surplus for others’ profit
• Digital connection is a means to commercial ends, not intrinsically pro-social
• Digital contract weightlessness lets firms extract rights that paper terms could not impose
• Digital growth coincided with inequality levels unseen since the Gilded Age
• Digital technologies reach three billion people and now mediate nearly all social life
• Digital-era capitalism shifted the focus of consumption from the mass to the individual
• Digital-era privacy rights were usurped by unilateral market claims on experience.
• Disconnection from social media can impair students’ sense of self-identity
• Disinformation thrived on Google and Facebook because it served their revenue imperatives.
• Distinctive property relations generate capitalism’s market imperatives
• Division of labor arose to replace clan and kin bonds in mobile modern societies.
• Division of labor makes modern societies possible, not merely more productive.
• Dominance over society’s division of learning is surveillance capitalism’s new axial principle
• Dual-class share structures spread from Google across Silicon Valley within a decade
• Dual-class shares freed founders to buy unprofitable startups for behavioral surplus
• Durkheim held that extreme power asymmetries cause pathological division of labor
• Early affective computing aimed to serve the subject, not others.
• Early behaviorists saw knowledge requiring the forfeit of freedom
• Early digital commerce promised personalized consumption aligned with genuine consumer interests
• Early Facebook Beacon quietly shared user activity without consent until protests forced opt-in.
• Early Facebook users protested News Feed as invasive but later embraced it
• Early Google ran a self-contained behavioral value reinvestment cycle treating users as ends
• Early Google reinvested all user behavioral data in improving its own services
• Early industrial market capitalism depended on reciprocal bonds with workers and communities
• Early internet advertising billed by views even when clicks were trackable
• Early search engines monetized through licensing and paid ranking listings
• Early Silicon Valley startups IPO’d more but achieved profitability rarer than elsewhere
• Early smart-home designers assumed occupants would own the knowledge their homes generated
• Early twentieth-century migration turned life into self-created improvisation
• Economic interdependence between classes historically drove democratic inclusion
• Economies of action are deliberately built to herd users along prescribed courses.
• Economies of action get institutionalized into automated algorithms that modify behavior
• Ed-tech firms openly link behavioral conditioning to profit-making from user action.
• Electronic communication enduringly exposes once-ephemeral social exchange to scrutiny
• Elinor Meiksins Wood traced capitalism’s origin to English agrarian property relations
• Emotion recognition reduces feelings to pattern-recognition problems for computers.
• Emotion recognition research originated for autism therapy before commercial appropriation
• Emotion sensing is expanding from observation to mood modification
• Emotion-detecting chips claim to classify twelve emotions across 64 trillion states
• Emotion-recognition machines capture involuntary micro-behaviors faster than human perception
• Emotion-tracking analytics are marketed as a pay-as-you-go service
• Empathic people are more susceptible to subliminal cues and influence
• Established telecom firms pivoted to compete for surveillance revenues
• Euphemistic labeling historically legitimized dispossession of native peoples.
• Even innocent-looking mobile apps are routinely infested with tracking programs.
• Every Alexa territory expansion increases the voice surplus Amazon extracts
• Every Google service expansion has drawn legal and social opposition
• Every government in the world claims power to compel disclosure of corporate-held data
• Everyday consumer objects are being redesigned as behavioral data sources
• Existing contest categories like monopoly and privacy cannot grasp surveillance capitalism
• Experience is rendered involuntarily through ignorance and lack of alternatives
• Extraction imperative forces relentless automated tracking and framing experience as free raw material
• Extraction is only the first phase, now twinned with execution.
• Facebook cannot stop exploiting user emotions while revenue depends on prediction.
• Facebook constitutes an active prototype of instrumentarian society, not a future forecast
• Facebook data employees work continuously to influence users’ moods and behavior
• Facebook engineers openly aspired to map all human behavior
• Facebook exited the EU legal framework for 1.5 billion users to evade GDPR
• Facebook exploits the psychological needs of young people during identity formation.
• Facebook exposure drives social comparison and envy on an unprecedented scale
• Facebook likes accurately reveal private attributes including sexual orientation and drug use.
• Facebook likes predict personality and life outcomes as accurately as human judges
• Facebook multiplied its lobbying spending fiftyfold in eight years
• Facebook patented emotion-detection software that images can classify into many feeling states
• Facebook ran a 61-million-user experiment on political mobilization in 2010
• Facebook ran over 1,000 data experiments without internal review or ethical limits.
• Facebook stores user tracking data in a separate system it refuses to expose
• Facebook targets vulnerable young users with advertising at emotionally weak moments
• Facebook users’ personality traits can be predicted from public data without consent.
• Facebook weaponizes social proof by dressing commerce as friendship.
• Facebook-facilitated disinformation had already disfigured elections across thirteen-plus countries before 2016.
• Facebook’s adolescent-designed practices were institutionalized for the whole population
• Facebook’s Beacon tracked purchases and broadcast them without consent
• Facebook’s behavior modification operates covertly at scale with no social or legal controls
• Facebook’s design intentionally exploits variable-reward dopamine hits to maximize user time.
• Facebook’s founder frames surveillance as a redemptive global church infrastructure
• Facebook’s FTC settlement only redirected its surveillance practices into new tracking methods
• Facebook’s growth logic treats any connection-increasing measure as good regardless of harm.
• Facebook’s manipulated social messages produced 340,000 additional votes in 2010
• Facebook’s routine behavioral manipulation made its research experiment appear legally unremarkable.
• Facebook’s subliminal emotional manipulation acted on hundreds of thousands of users beyond their awareness
• Facebook’s systematic denial was timed to habituate users before scrutiny could bite.
• Facebook’s vision subordinates whole societies, not just users, to its predictive embrace
• Facebook’s voting experiment proved social pressure can be instrumentally deployed at scale.
• Facial rendition is the foundational operation surveillance capitalism cannot survive without
• Falling social trust creates a void that instrumentarian power fills with certainty.
• FDA-approved health apps have understudied data-transmission practices
• Fear of financial obscurity drove Google founders to abandon founding principles
• Fear of nonexistence pressures people to participate in surveillance platforms.
• Fear of social invisibility drives user acceptance of surveillance features
• Feed the need for others’ approval and self-construction is impaired.
• Felt experience of individual rights lagged behind formal law until second modernity
• Financial deepening is linked to bankruptcies, bank failures, and recession.
• First Amendment jurisprudence has been used to advance a conservative-libertarian judicial agenda
• First modernity’s own successes eroded its authority and created self-directed individuals
• Fitness trackers leak geolocation data that serves no user benefit
• Fixating on specific firms obscures the underlying patterns of surveillance capitalism
• FOMO drives compulsive checking that worsens, not relieves, anxiety
• Ford’s five-dollar day centered workers as consumers, not just laborers
• Foundational economic texts require slow rereading rather than quick consumption
• Free Wi-Fi kiosks disguised as equity tools siphon data even from non-users.
• Freedom of will is the necessary foundation for civilization
• Freedom to will requires tolerating uncertainty through shared promises
• FTC enforcement against surveillance capitalism cannot succeed because market-imperative mandates trump compliance
• Fusion-feeding features are iteratively replaced by more powerful versions.
• Game design can deliberately nudge real-world physical behavior.
• Games achieve behavioral engineering through three tiers of dynamics, mechanics, and components
• Games like Pokémon Go serve as experimental prototypes for broad behavioral modification infrastructure
• GDPR reverses US law by making companies justify data activities under regulation
• Generation Z’s constant social media use creates an outside-looking-in dependency on others for identity
• Genuinely new phenomena resist recognition because people interpret them through familiar categories
• Georgia Tech’s 2000 Aware Home prototype embedded context-aware sensors in a house.
• German resistance to Street View was widespread enough to force massive opt-out processing
• Gilded Age elites circumscribed democracy to protect their economic regime
• Gilded Age industrialists invoked natural laws to justify opposing state regulation
• Gilded Age social Darwinism and ‘network effects’ both excuse capitalist concentration as fate
• Gilded Age tycoon ideology rehearsed Silicon Valley’s survival-of-the-fittest rhetoric.
• GM employed more people in 1929 than Google or Facebook do at their peaks.
• Gmail’s targeted ads exploited reader privacy for profit from 2004 launch
• Google aims to weave sensing capability directly into everyday materials
• Google and Facebook captured nearly all growth in global ad spending by 2016
• Google applies web-indexing methods to physically master reality
• Google by 1999 had no revenue mechanism and thus was not yet capitalism
• Google cast itself as a disrupter fighting incumbent-funded politicians
• Google copied Overture’s ranked-advertisement model during a cash emergency
• Google declared a state of exception suspending users’ decision rights
• Google deliberately sought freedom from both market governance and democratic law.
• Google dismissed accountability concerns by asserting dynastic continuity of its founders’ views
• Google dominated roughly nine in ten searches worldwide by 2017.
• Google dominates the infrastructure behind hidden app connections to behavioral surplus markets.
• Google engineered its methods specifically to claim data users intentionally withheld
• Google engineered proprietary chips to slash the energy cost of machine intelligence.
• Google erected four defensive arenas to protect its unregulated behavioral surplus
• Google executives dismissed resistance as ignorance and equated critics with authoritarians
• Google frames public opposition as fleeting irrational resistance to inevitable progress
• Google frames users’ unpaid data contributions as an investment in personalized services.
• Google funded far-right antiregulation groups and absorbed privacy advocates amid antitrust scrutiny
• Google funds think tanks to shape policy narratives in its favor
• Google institutionalized click-through prediction as a new science of commerce
• Google institutionalized secrecy to sustain behavioral surplus extraction
• Google institutionalized surveillance capitalism by simply declaring its right to take experience as data
• Google justifies total knowledge collection as a requirement for useful search
• Google legally framed public spaces as unauthorized surveillance territory
• Google legitimated the ‘for-profit city’ as surveillance capitalism’s key urban ambition.
• Google Maps marked surveillance’s shift from knowledge to influence and control
• Google must possess each user to provide each user an individual assistant
• Google pioneered a new economic logic comparable to Ford’s mass production
• Google pioneered surveillance capitalism as GM pioneered managerial capitalism
• Google publicly misrepresented data retention as technological inevitability.
• Google quietly killed then redesigned Glass without acknowledging public criticism
• Google reclassifies publicly-funded geographic data combined with captured behavioral surplus as private assets
• Google recognized its own business as an auction business through Varian’s analysis
• Google recruited businesses as collaborators by framing surveillance as a premium service
• Google reframed systemic data capture as one engineer’s isolated mistake
• Google reimagined search query by-products as a resource for learning
• Google repeated the same extraction tactics across Gmail and Street View
• Google responds to resistance with staged superficial compliance rather than genuine reform
• Google retreated to workplaces to habituate employees to Glass before street deployment
• Google secretly staged academic conferences to influence antitrust regulators
• Google sells fabricated predictions, not raw personal data
• Google shifted advertising from matching keywords to targeting individual users
• Google staked its claim to cyberspace as ungoverned territory beyond reach of law
• Google Street View triggered worldwide legal and public resistance
• Google Toolbar tracked browsing even when users explicitly disabled it
• Google treats data collection as a vital supply line to defend at all costs
• Google treats public resistance as an obstacle to be managed commercially
• Google uniquely recognized and exploited search data exhaust that rivals ignored
• Google’s 2004 financial results ended the search for a workable internet business model.
• Google’s academic funding bought favorable research and enabled retaliation against critics
• Google’s ad quality score was an opaque behavioral-prediction metric priced by the firm
• Google’s ad-ranking innovation operationalized behavioral surplus as its core asset
• Google’s ad-sales leaders carried its surveillance model to other firms
• Google’s advantage cycle lacked a market transaction to anchor reciprocity
• Google’s auctions actually traded derivatives of behavioral surplus
• Google’s behavioral surplus became a zero-cost asset diverted to market exchange
• Google’s behavioral surplus exploitation produced a 3,590 percent revenue surge in four years
• Google’s data intimacy lacks the accountability that binds trusted professionals
• Google’s declarations form an interdependent edifice of claims to data
• Google’s dual-class share structure insulated founders from market and investor pressures
• Google’s early ad-matching patents replaced guesswork with predictive behavioral data
• Google’s founders conceived its product as capturing all personal life data
• Google’s founders controlled corporate decisions through super-voting shares.
• Google’s founders envisioned being handed a city to control and license its technology
• Google’s founders frame total surveillance as the logical path to a perfected society
• Google’s founders initially opposed advertising as inherently biasing search toward advertisers
• Google’s founders openly dismiss law as outdated and seek self-governing test zones
• Google’s founders saw human experience as free raw material for surveillance capitalism.
• Google’s ideal constituency is passive users, not engaged citizens.
• Google’s indexing changed the information life cycle by making personal data permanently accessible
• Google’s leaders argued private data power is safer than state data power
• Google’s leaders leveraged First Amendment claims as legal shelter for surveillance inventions
• Google’s leaders predicted the internet would vanish into pervasive everyday computing
• Google’s mapping ambitions presupposed nothing in the world lay beyond its borders
• Google’s mapping games served as test beds for expanding surveillance capitalism into physical space
• Google’s observational dominance lets it bypass social relations with automated compulsion.
• Google’s patented user-profiling schema already enumerated behavioral surplus attributes by the early 2000s
• Google’s patents explicitly aimed to circumvent users’ decision rights over their data
• Google’s predictive capabilities remain opaque to all but an internal data priesthood
• Google’s proximity to the Obama White House terrified its competitors
• Google’s refusal to allow opt-out reflects its extractive economics, not mere product choice
• Google’s scapegoating of a single engineer contradicted known internal evidence
• Google’s secrecy means its chief economist’s writings reveal its logic
• Google’s secrecy was necessary to hide its unilateral seizure of user data
• Google’s Street View cars secretly harvested personal Wi-Fi payload data.
• Google’s Street View debut disguised surveillance expansion as friendly privacy respect
• Google’s success stems from radical social relations, not technological prowess alone
• Google’s surveillance power depends on massive physical data infrastructure
• Governance by total data transfers social trust to an undefined ruling ‘we’
• Governments seek predictive algorithms scoring citizens’ radicalness like credit scores.
• Guaranteed prediction products require causal knowledge gained through experiments
• Hal Varian played a leading role shaping Google’s commercial logic without executive title
• Hayek’s extended order subordinates political authority to market discipline
• Health-related app downloads grew sharply as smartphone ownership expanded.
• Herding forecloses action alternatives to move behavior toward near-certain outcomes remotely.
• Historical market capitalization data for GM, Google, and Facebook are compiled and inflation-adjusted
• Historical observers failed to foresee totalitarianism’s rise before 1914
• Historical threat imagination centered on state power left society unprepared for corporate surveillance
• Home-device privacy policies extract biometric and audio data from entire households
• Homes encode memory spatially so that rooms hold distinct pasts
• Human home is a meaning-centered sense of mastery and belonging, not a physical place.
• Humans commit and act despite imperfect information about the future
• Humans require both enclosed refuge and open prospect for wellbeing
• Hyperscale surveillance capitalists barely depend on society for employees
• IBM commercialized academic personality prediction into a vast commercial service
• IBM rebranded AI as cognitive computing to avoid connotations of inscrutable machine power
• IBM tested its personality-matching operations first on captive employees
• Identity is now a matter of choice rather than inherited absolute truth
• Impatient venture money produces many startup failures and few big wins
• In 1967, Herman Kahn already foresaw predictive surveillance systems and called them a nightmare.
• Inaudible ultrasonic tones emitted by retail speakers can track phones indoors.
• Incremental normalization erodes perception of surveillance’s expanding scope
• Indignation is the necessary motivational force for challenging surveillance capitalism
• Individual data-rights enforcement cannot succeed without collective action
• Individual escape attempts and structural collapse are different orders of resistance
• Individualization as a modernization outcome differs sharply from neoliberal individualism and psychological individuation
• Individualization is institutionalized and reshapes class inequality analysis
• Indoor spaces resisted surveillance until businesses were made willing hosts
• Industrial capitalism damaged nature where surveillance capitalism damages human nature.
• Industrial capitalism’s workplace practices reshaped twentieth-century society to fit mass production.
• Industrial mass society preserved feudal affiliation patterns while substituting bureaucratic anchors
• Industrial organization patterns shaped schools, hospitals, and family life
• Industry discourse framed data exhaust as a benign by-product recycled to improve services
• Inequality serves surveillance capitalism as a lever for extracting consent
• Inevitabilism is a rhetorical cover for contingent capitalist choices driving surveillance.
• Inevitabilism’s claim to ubiquity may shade into new forms of coercion.
• Inevitabilist rhetoric frames political choices as unopposable historical necessities
• Inevitability rhetoric erases the fingerprints of actual power holders
• Inevitability rhetoric is a fraud that disables resistance to power
• Information civilization built on surveillance capitalism threatens to cost us our humanity.
• Information civilization under surveillance capitalism may deplete human nature as industry depleted nature
• Information now functions as society’s organizing principle, replacing labor
• Inner self-authorship is formed through conflict, dissonance, and failure
• Institutionalization made surveillance capitalism’s practices appear necessary and inevitable
• Instrumentarian logic casts human behavior as a problem to be brought under computational control.
• Instrumentarian power aims at total certainty through a market project
• Instrumentarian power arises from converging surveillance capabilities and monetized behavioral surplus
• Instrumentarian power differs fundamentally from twentieth-century totalitarianism
• Instrumentarian power does not require conformity or mass submission to norms
• Instrumentarian power governs through inducement and reinforcement rather than overt coercion
• Instrumentarian power operates as a bloodless taming rather than bodily violence.
• Instrumentarian power transforms the market into a project of total certainty, unlike totalitarian possession
• Instrumentarian power turns people into means toward surveillance capitalists’ market ends.
• Instrumentarian social engineering principles produce chronic self-comparison among young women online
• Instrumentarian social principles operate as lived facts on current platforms
• Instrumentarian sociality creates new stratification instead of dissolving class divisions
• Instrumentarian society is a planned society enforcing total behavioral control
• Instrumentarian society promises a future guaranteed free of mistakes, accidents, and random messes.
• Instrumentarian society reduces individuals to collective herd-like existence with no exit
• Instrumentarianism is a market project unlike totalitarianism’s political project.
• Instrumentarianism’s observational viewpoint originates in radical behaviorism’s view of humans as controlled organisms
• Instrumentation enables calculating and modifying individuals’ susceptibility to ideas
• Instrumented workplaces act as testbeds for extending instrumentarian control to all of society
• Insurance shifts from mitigating risk to eliminating it via continuous monitoring
• Intelligence officials have explicitly endorsed blurring the public-private boundary for surveillance
• Internalized belief systems can shackle people more effectively than force
• Internet platforms gained unprecedented power to manufacture user behavior
• Internet-of-things designers can shut down appliances to force behavior changes remotely.
• Investment crisis at Google justified abandoning the user-service reciprocal relationship
• Investor panic pressured Google toward profit despite its search dominance
• IoT engineers describe actuation as the critical turning point in ubiquitous computing
• IoT sensors can modify human behavior as easily as device behavior
• ISPs lobbied to kill FCC privacy rules, claiming unfair competition with Google
• Job polarization trends stem from political and institutional choices, not technological inevitability
• Journalism’s truth-falsehood distinction directly opposes platforms’ radical indifference to content
• Knowing more about a person makes controlling them easier, threatening autonomy
• Knowledge of your exact location is the most basic unit of behavioral surplus
• Knowledge production now structures social order as labor once did
• Knowledge, authority, and power form a nested hierarchy of questions
• Larry Page wanted software to organize society itself, not just information
• Late-life Skinner despaired that free-will attachment would defeat behaviorism
• Legislative change follows shifts in public opinion by decades, so opinion must come first
• Lenders deploy telematics that remotely disable cars when payments lapse
• Likes cause users to regress from self-other balance toward fusion
• Likes function as variable-reward dopamine reinforcement driving user compulsion
• Location and phone-sensor data reveal individuals and moods even when anonymized
• Location-based games let retailers pay tiny sums to direct real foot traffic.
• Lucrative surveillance revenues deterred firms from inventing alternative market forms
• Machine intelligence quality improves with data volume, unlike industrial production
• Machine learning demands computation so massive it drove Google’s data center investments.
• Machine relations are positioned as the template for human social relations.
• Machine-enforced unilateral control substitutes for legally binding mutual promises
• Machine-learning data operations have grown too complex for humans to comprehend or audit.
• Machines can capture emotional reactions the subject cannot consciously report
• Machines can treat everyday digital traces as psychological test items
• Mainstream American magazines lionized Stalin as a participatory manager for decades
• Mainstream reporting normalized Stalin’s atrocities even at their peak
• Majorities of Americans support a US right to be forgotten
• Majority of Americans viewed smart wearables as a change for the worse
• Management consultancies openly frame behavioral surplus as monetizable market infrastructure.
• Managers cannot resist using new social text to evaluate and punish subordinates
• Mapmaking is a fundamental instrument of imperial and surveillance power.
• Market forces redirected affective computing from empowerment into commercial surveillance
• Market success triggers a naturalistic fallacy that corporations must be right.
• Markets in future behavior emerged from Google’s predictive analysis of data exhaust
• Mass behavior modification was denounced decades ago but now passes with little resistance
• Mass production made goods affordable by exploiting high volume and low unit cost.
• Massive behavioral surveillance is the precondition for instrumentarian power and all its harms
• Max Meyer proposed studying behavior from the Other-One’s external viewpoint
• Max Planck’s phantom-problems paper supplied the external-viewpoint doctrine behind radical behaviorism
• Meaningful contestation of algorithms requires new machine-grade regulatory power.
• Means of social participation now equal means of behavioral modification for most people.
• Measurable personality traits predict consumer responses and are farmed for profit.
• Medieval societies recognized multiple overlapping bonds and authorities.
• Microsoft patented preemptive monitoring of user behavior against mental-state prediction models.
• Microsoft pivoted to surveillance capitalism under Nadella after missing early search-ad opportunities
• Microsoft’s platform metrics reveal the sheer scale of the instrumentarian apparatus
• Mid-century observers could not imagine behavioral modification as a private market project
• Military demand distorts and suppresses civilian innovation, leaving industries vulnerable
• Millennials check their phones over five times more often than adults do daily.
• Mobile-device shift forced Facebook to master surplus capture anew
• Model prisons and observer credulity masked Soviet state terror
• Moderation was legally punished, creating a perverse incentive not to police content
• Modern false consciousness stems from control over learning, not class position
• Modern individuals demand self-determination while being treated as invisible ciphers
• Modern inequality’s pain comes from knowing dignity that feudalism-era people lacked
• Modern life became an open-ended discovery rather than a preordained enactment
• Modified behavior yields the most predictive behavioral surplus of all
• Monopoly practices protect data supply routes rather than raising prices
• More Facebook use increases body surveillance regardless of gender
• More industrially developed countries display the future of less developed ones
• More social media connections can worsen users’ emotional states through comparison loops
• Most Android apps quietly connect to tracking and ad servers without user knowledge.
• Mutual surveillance becomes the habitat within which social conformity is engineered
• Napster hacked the music industry; Apple hacked capitalism itself
• National security agencies have coveted private-sector surveillance capacities as seamless extensions of state power
• National security demand for surveillance let Google’s practices grow unregulated
• Nazism made the movement, not the state, the spiritual centre of totalitarianism
• Neoliberal anti-regulation ideology and the war on terror jointly sheltered surveillance capitalism from scrutiny
• Neoliberal economics rose to dominance through a policy vacuum, not popularity
• Neoliberal fears of regulatory coercion outweighed cost-benefit arguments in shaping US regulatory policy
• Neoliberal ideology framed privacy as a competitively traded good to justify deregulation
• Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics
• Neoliberalism exists to reverse modernity’s claims to self-determination
• Neoliberalism reframed democracy and unions as enemies of market truth.
• Neoliberalism supplied sheltering ideologies that surveillance capitalism exploited
• Networked machine learning compounds individual errors into population-level knowledge faster than humans can.
• New economic forms usually revert to established practices rather than fully institutionalizing
• New phenomena require new vocabulary, but familiar terms get repurposed
• New surveillance technologies are deliberately disguised in familiar forms to ease adoption.
• Niantic’s name deliberately invokes a greed-undone whaling ship as a gold rush metaphor
• No earlier economic order married behavior modification to private wealth at global scale
• No major pre-1914 scholar foresaw the rise of totalitarianism
• Observable behavior and environment are more reliably knowable than inner personality structure.
• Only legal compulsion can force access to prediction data
• Only two dozen hyperscale firms dominated digital infrastructure in 2017
• Opt-in data sharing is coercive because refusing degrades product functionality
• Opting out of Microsoft’s Cortana still subjected users to unprecedented data capture
• Opting out of tracking legitimizes surveillance rather than challenging it
• Ordinary people must proclaim their right to the future
• Ordinary people’s refusal can topple even entrenched systems of power
• Ordinary residents actively blocked Street View cars in the West
• Orwell’s vision grew from Mussolini’s totalitarian will in Italy
• Overwhelming US majorities favor rights-to-be-forgotten style data control
• Page and Brin retained majority voting power with only 56 percent of votes
• Palantir’s software predicts individual violence likelihood for police
• Passenger pigeons’ extreme social empathy made them an easy prey for humans
• Past policy tools fail against surveillance capitalism because they target obsolete problems
• Paying users for their data would legitimate rather than fix behavioral extraction
• Pentland argues speed of networked life renders old political concepts obsolete
• Pentland framed smart infrastructure as a global nervous system for humanity.
• Pentland frames free will as a low-frequency statistical deviation from predictable social patterns
• Pentland frames MIT’s speed norms as the avant-garde model for surveillance society
• Pentland frames ubiquitous behavioral data as a radically new mode of social self-knowledge
• Pentland recasts society as a causal system to be engineered from behavior data
• Pentland’s firms serve as proving grounds for instrumentarian techniques
• Pentland’s lab receives funding from rival governments including both the US and China.
• Pentland’s population-level approach to behavior began in counting beavers from space.
• Pentland’s sociometer turned social interaction into instrumentable, predictively modelable data
• People now self-censor offline behavior out of fear of online audiences
• Persistent surveillance turned a secret visit into a televised target without detection.
• Personality-based behavioral targeting moved from elections to commercial sales after 2016.
• Personalization euphemistically extends dispossession from web crawling to self crawling
• Persuasion that stimulates some behaviors while suppressing others constitutes conditioning
• Pharmaceutical firms and employers embraced health apps as cost-saving tools.
• Physical assets are becoming tradeable commodities in real-time digital markets
• Physical space is being redesigned as browse-able environments of sensor data
• Platform data sharing ruined personal moments without consent
• Platform founders block shareholder oversight of disinformation practices
• Platform moderation is driven by surplus volume and velocity, not public welfare.
• Platform scale rivals biological viruses in speed and reach of growth
• Platforms built a shared cross-company censorship database to police terrorist content.
• Platforms exploit users’ natural empathy as a channel for behavioral tuning
• Platforms possess personality-surplus data scientists could never have collected
• Platforms treat content corruption as a problem only when it threatens surplus extraction
• Platforms’ crisis responses double down on behavioral surplus extraction
• Platforms’ initial promise of freedom masks instrumentarian behavioral engineering
• Pokémon Go directs behavior modification toward targets players never consciously perceive
• Pokémon Go functioned as a covert surveillance-capitalism apparatus to herd players toward commercial locations
• Pokémon Go pioneered automated mass conditioning of behavior into prediction markets
• Pokémon Go’s launch added $10.2 billion to Nintendo’s market value in one week.
• Pokémon Go’s location tracking aimed to compile one of the most detailed social graphs
• Positive social comparisons are just as harmful as negative ones
• Postwar American capitalism embedded corporations in stabilizing labor institutions
• Postwar American consumption was politically constructed
• Powerful corporations have long used the Constitution to fight regulation
• Prediction certainty is enhanced by modifying behavior, not just observing it.
• Predictive behavioral surplus proved directly applicable to winning elections
• Predictive interfaces do not update contract but abolish it entirely.
• Prescient surveillance warnings from the 1960s are now celebrated as progress, not feared.
• President Carter, not Reagan, launched the first major US deregulation wave.
• Presuming society already failed justifies coercive intervention for certainty
• Privacy and data-ownership debates miss why experience becomes behavioral data at all
• Privacy behaviors serve measurable psychological functions necessary for healthy development
• Privacy controversies have not slowed the global expansion of surveillance-capitalist services
• Privacy is fundamentally about decision rights over self-disclosure
• Privacy is not eroded but redistributed to surveillance capital
• Privacy law fails because it guards doorways while surveillance already occupies the rooms
• Privacy policies function as surveillance policies in practice
• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic
• Private speech is converted into behavioral surplus via content and delivery
• Private tech firms now lead basic research that government once funded
• Professional note-taking means filtering for audience relevance, not transcribing everything
• Prolonged defiance converts violations into accepted normalcy
• Protesters are designing anticounter-surveillance tools against surveillance capitalism
• Psychological self-sovereignty predates the internet, which later amplified it
• Public authorities can sustain private armed forces beyond city control
• Public criticism failed to halt Facebook’s behavior modification experiments
• Public essays forced earlier articulation of the surveillance capitalism framework
• Public majorities consistently favor stronger privacy protections in surveys
• Radical behaviorism defines behavior only as what another organism observes
• Reality mining of digital breadcrumbs enables second-by-second models of group behavior
• Refusing a smart device’s terms degrades its safety and security functions.
• Regulating Facebook would push its practices into covert opacity rather than end them.
• Regulating surveillance capitalism depends on society rejecting behavioral prediction markets
• Regulators treated a child surveillance toy as an illegal spy device
• Regulatory settlements lag behind the tactical redirections they punish
• Rejected surveillance programs were quietly reassigned and funded under other names.
• Rendition can exist without surveillance capitalism, but never the reverse
• Rendition is the first operational step of surveillance capitalism’s dispossession project
• Rendition is typically unauthorized, unilateral, gluttonous, secret, and brazen
• Repeated corporate privacy violations indicate an intentional design rather than oversight
• Research ethics rules cannot restrain a company that routinely manipulates users at scale.
• Researchers aim to translate every physical space and behavior into searchable information
• Resistance to surveillance capitalism requires deliberately creating friction against its smooth flows
• Sanctuary is an ancient antidote to totalizing power, not merely a religious custom
• Sanctuary is the historical name for spaces where a self can form
• Satellite resolution advances enable pattern-of-life analysis based on movement
• Schmidt’s famous remark merely restated Weiser’s 1991 ubiquitous-computing vision
• Scholars on the left increasingly favor China-style authoritarianism over democracy
• Schumpeterian mutation requires enduring qualitative shifts driven by new consumer needs
• Search and feed rankings are value-laden decisions, not neutral mirrors
• Search and users shared a symbiotic learning loop before surveillance capitalism
• Search engine results are contingent products of corporate economic interests, not inevitable truths.
• Search engines froze personal information in permanent foreground of digital identity
• Search queries yield collateral behavioral data beyond the key words themselves
• Search query data predicts events and trends faster than traditional media
• Search query data reveals real-world events before traditional media does
• Search query spikes track broadcast schedules across US time zones in real time
• Second-modernity identity needs summoned the internet into everyday life
• Secrecy and illegibility are deliberate design features, not incidental side effects
• Secret handshake-based collaborations let intelligence agencies evade legal oversight
• Section 230’s rationale fails because today’s intermediaries are surveillance capitalists
• Self-aware premeditation and commitment are the strongest defenses against persuasion
• Self-awareness exists chiefly to enable self-regulation
• Self-regulation became entrenched policy just as the internet and surveillance capitalism were emerging
• Selling predictions of human behavior superseded serving genuine needs in web economics
• Shareholder-value maximization went unanswered by any countervailing force
• Showing friends’ faces boosted Facebook voting message effectiveness by 2 percent
• Sidewalk Labs applied Google’s behavioral surplus model to physical urban space
• Silicon Valley misappropriates Schumpeter’s creative destruction to justify permissionless innovation
• Siri’s original developers defected to build rival voice system Viv
• Skinner advocated a behavioral technology comparable in power to physics and biology.
• Skinner anticipated surveillance capitalism’s practice of rendering private life into behavioral data
• Skinner argued complexity in behavior does not imply free will.
• Skinner argued the autonomous self must be abolished for species survival
• Skinner believed technical advances would dissolve privacy norms entirely
• Skinner envisioned a population-scale technology of behavioral control that rejected freedom
• Skinner held that gaining knowledge destroys the illusion of free will
• Skinner rejected democracy, markets, humanism, and religion as cures
• Skinner saw belief in free will as blocking rational social advance.
• Skinner saw democratic politics as friction threatening rational efficiency.
• Skinner saw Enlightenment freedom values as impediments to behavioral science
• Skinner saw freedom and accidents shrinking as computation expands knowledge of behavior.
• Skinner treats free will as a fiction covering ignorance
• Skinner was the most influential and controversial living American psychologist in 1971
• Skinner’s 1953 work anticipated today’s engineered casino and platform behavior-shaping.
• Skinner’s behaviorism prefigured Pentland’s dismissal of the autonomous individual
• Skinner’s behaviorism was seen as equally compatible with libertarian and fascist politics
• Skinner’s behaviorist utopia requires sacrificing liberal ideals for the good life
• Skinner’s behaviorist vision now wins acceptance that once triggered moral revulsion.
• Skinner’s once-scorned behavioral control dream now attracts massive capital and state protection
• Skinner’s plan replaces politics with dispassionate schedule administration.
• Skinner’s reinforcement schedules replace simple stimulus-response with engineered behavior shaping.
• Skinner’s utopia rested on treating humans as engineered organisms
• Skinner’s WWII pigeon-guided-missile project transformed his psychology into a technology for society
• Slot players seek a dissociative self-forgetting state, not entertainment or winnings.
• Slow legal process lets contested practices settle into ordinary acceptance
• Slowing down Silicon Valley’s pace is required to understand its social effects
• Small gestures of mutual trust resonate widely because they seem threatened with extinction
• Smart home devices claim a limitless scope of domestic activities for rendition
• Smart-home device spending is exploding alongside surveillance capability
• Smart-home devices now create immense knowledge stores with unowned power
• Smart-home IoT devices enroll consumers in surveillance-based markets without knowledge or consent
• Smith’s invisible hand rests on ignorance of the larger market pattern.
• Social categories like class and race may be replaced by behavior-based demographic prediction
• Social comparison is the dominant psychological process in the Facebook experience.
• Social influence becomes a design mechanism for herding populations toward planned outcomes
• Social media free products are extraction lures, and users are raw-material sources, not products
• Social media instruments natural empathy to modify behavior for others’ benefit
• Social media intensifies but did not invent adolescent craving for peer recognition.
• Social media is precision-engineered to exploit adolescent desires for peer recognition.
• Social media is the first global experiment testing a human hive
• Social media triggers unprecedented intensity of social comparison among the young.
• Social media’s engineered feedback loops convert normal social comparison into compulsive anxiety
• Social media’s herd-intensification may impede individual development at population scale
• Social norms exercise overwhelming force over even trained observers of behavior
• Social sharing of behavioral data abolishes individual privacy in favor of group truth
• Societal acquiescence to surveillance stems from dependency and ignorance
• Spain’s 15M encampment protests birthed Podemos
• Spain’s 2011 crisis drove youth unemployment to 46 percent
• Spain’s data protection agency ordered Google to stop indexing contested citizen links
• Speed is rhetorically repurposed to justify surrendering individual agency
• Sponsored locations transform game play into behavioral futures markets for real-world customers.
• Stalin explicitly declared the production of souls more important than that of tanks
• State and market institutions share a drive toward guaranteed outcomes
• State investigations and legal findings against Google spanned twelve countries by 2012.
• State regulators extracted trivial fines from Google while trusting voluntary self-policing on data privacy.
• Street View extends Google’s web-crawler dispossession into the physical world
• Street View’s alleged rogue actor was actually rewarded with continued employment and patents
• Stricter EU privacy laws did not slow Facebook and Google growth
• Subliminal emotional content exposure changes users’ own posting tone
• Success is mistaken for moral rightness in evaluating surveillance capitalism’s rules.
• Supposedly anonymized location data can identify individuals’ home addresses
• Surplus capital seizes low-cost assets and converts them to profit
• Surveillance capital derives from the dispossession of human experience
• Surveillance capital firms cycle through incursion, habituation, retreat, and recamouflaged pursuit.
• Surveillance capital multiplies the risks of self-construction into a mountain range.
• Surveillance capital now endangers the elemental right to the future tense
• Surveillance capital now extracts surplus from inner bodily and emotional signals.
• Surveillance capital’s core goal is keeping users locked to the social mirror
• Surveillance capital’s power struggle targets all of society rather than just labor.
• Surveillance capital’s tuning society replaces governance and politics with social pressure
• Surveillance capitalism advanced through corporate control, lawless space, and cultural fortification against scrutiny
• Surveillance capitalism aims to author people rather than destroy them
• Surveillance capitalism aims to dominate human nature rather than external nature.
• Surveillance capitalism aims to produce guaranteed outcomes rather than impose behavioral norms
• Surveillance capitalism breaks the historical link between innovation and shared prosperity
• Surveillance capitalism conquered through unilateral declarations, not permission seeking
• Surveillance capitalism constitutes a coup against the people disguised as personalization
• Surveillance capitalism constitutes a privatized market-based collectivism
• Surveillance capitalism continuously intensifies the means of behavioral modification
• Surveillance capitalism converts everyday shared spaces into objects of commercial inspection
• Surveillance capitalism declares human experience a fourth fictional commodity renamed as behavior.
• Surveillance capitalism deliberately exploits its historical conditions rather than arising accidentally
• Surveillance capitalism deploys practice ahead of contestable theory, preempting critique.
• Surveillance capitalism economies of scale apply to extraction, not production
• Surveillance capitalism emerged gradually and initially read as incidental corporate missteps
• Surveillance capitalism expanded from online advertising to offline bodily and financial life
• Surveillance capitalism exploits both extraction and our voluntary surrender via interfaces
• Surveillance capitalism exploits instability’s vulnerabilities rather than healing them.
• Surveillance capitalism exploits the human hunger for recognition
• Surveillance capitalism feeds on the social transformations it causes
• Surveillance capitalism formally abandons capitalism’s historic reciprocity with workers and consumers.
• Surveillance capitalism functions as a profoundly antidemocratic social force
• Surveillance capitalism fuses every moment of user empowerment with simultaneous data plunder.
• Surveillance capitalism grew through era-specific conditions plus deliberate political and cultural capture
• Surveillance capitalism has destroyed the vision of body data serving intimacy
• Surveillance capitalism is a new and original economic form unlike any prior capitalism
• Surveillance capitalism is a species of power comparable in significance to totalitarianism
• Surveillance capitalism is collapsing the distinction between private and public life
• Surveillance capitalism is economic imperatives, not the technologies they employ
• Surveillance capitalism is expanding from online ads into real-world behavioral futures markets.
• Surveillance capitalism is expanding from the web into everyday life
• Surveillance capitalism may realize Skinner’s utopia in service of profit
• Surveillance capitalism mines intimate personality and emotional data for profit
• Surveillance capitalism moves from predicting behavior to actively shaping it in real time
• Surveillance capitalism operates quietly through ambient technology that bypasses our awareness
• Surveillance capitalism operates through Big Other to engineer behavior rather than souls
• Surveillance capitalism recasts social connectedness as a medium for guaranteed outcomes.
• Surveillance capitalism replaces human relationships with machine processes to achieve certainty over trust.
• Surveillance capitalism reproduces the very collectivism its neoliberal founders opposed.
• Surveillance capitalism requires automated behavior modification, while feedback loops serve owners.
• Surveillance capitalism requires ubiquitous computing but not the reverse
• Surveillance capitalism rests on extreme inequalities of knowledge and power
• Surveillance capitalism rewards ‘boundarylessness’ to extract predictive surplus from inner life
• Surveillance capitalism structurally requires lawless extraction and must defeat democracy to survive
• Surveillance capitalism subordinates earlier user reciprocities to derivative extraction for others’ aims
• Surveillance capitalism threatens human sovereignty over life and authorship of experience
• Surveillance capitalism threatens novel rights like the right to the future tense
• Surveillance capitalism threatens the inward capacities that sustain social bonds
• Surveillance capitalism thrives where individualized consumption meets a hostile neoliberal paradigm
• Surveillance capitalism treats humans as dispossessed natural resources denied self-determination.
• Surveillance capitalism treats social trust as unnecessary friction to be eliminated
• Surveillance capitalism, like mass production, originated as an American invention that became global.
• Surveillance capitalism’s advocates invert the AI-human relationship, demanding people become machine-like.
• Surveillance capitalism’s architecture is made by humans and can be unmade democratically
• Surveillance capitalism’s behavioral modification creates heteronomous individuals contrary to democratic ideals
• Surveillance capitalism’s behavioral modification now targets everyone rather than just captives
• Surveillance capitalism’s closed loops suffocate the inwardness enabling moral judgment
• Surveillance capitalism’s core activities proceed by misrepresenting extraction as something else
• Surveillance capitalism’s dangers exceed privacy and monopoly concerns
• Surveillance capitalism’s defining change operates without violence by displacing the will to will
• Surveillance capitalism’s design aim is the extinction of autonomous selfhood
• Surveillance capitalism’s first move is seizing behavioral surplus from everyday life
• Surveillance capitalism’s future is still averted through individual awakening, per Zuboff
• Surveillance capitalism’s inevitabilist ideology presents its power as natural like a glacier
• Surveillance capitalism’s lawlessness echoes the Gilded Age robber barons
• Surveillance capitalism’s market power rests on secrecy and nonessential participants.
• Surveillance capitalism’s power is actually the opposite of Orwell’s Big Brother
• Surveillance capitalism’s prediction imperative modifies behavior using secret means beyond awareness.
• Surveillance capitalism’s third modernity trades individual freedom for imposed collective certainty
• Surveillance capitalism’s victims can organize resistance because they retain voice
• Surveillance capitalist experiments exploit knowledge asymmetry to engineer user behavior for profit
• Surveillance capitalist firms operate on a hyperscale pattern with tiny workforces.
• Surveillance capitalists aim to capture every corner of human experience
• Surveillance capitalists are the first utopians who can build new worlds directly from imagination.
• Surveillance capitalists claim market freedom while dismantling the ignorance it was premised on
• Surveillance capitalists deliberately conceal how their platforms monetize user behavior
• Surveillance capitalists dismissed privacy objections as habitual aversion to innovation
• Surveillance capitalists exclude individuals because awareness is friction against knowledge production
• Surveillance capitalists frame their practices as inevitable to hide calculated self-dealing.
• Surveillance capitalists know too much to qualify for freedom
• Surveillance capitalists now control society’s definitive principle of social ordering through privatized knowledge.
• Surveillance capitalists now frame governance itself as a product to optimize.
• Surveillance capitalists parallel Gilded Age industrialists in exploiting law to escape constraints
• Surveillance capitalists redirected behavioral economists’ nudges toward private profit rather than individual welfare.
• Surveillance capitalists self-authorize the right to modify user behavior for profit
• Surveillance capitalists used unilateral declarations to take without asking.
• Surveillance capitalists weaponize free speech doctrine to block oversight of their algorithms
• Surveillance capitalists’ social vision must be inferred from their operations.
• Surveillance firms adapt tactics to whatever resistance incursions meet
• Surveillance firms fight privacy law because regulation threatens behavioral surplus extraction
• Surveillance is a foundational mechanism in converting investment into profit.
• Surveillance is founded on asymmetries of knowledge and power
• Surveillance of social text drives people toward perfunctory, impersonal communication
• Surveillance platforms extract behavioral data from users and sell predictions to advertisers
• Surveillance platforms weaponize empathy and belonging to herd behavior commercially
• Surveillance power erodes democracy from within rather than confronting it directly
• Surveillance replaces God’s total knowledge as an inescapable observer
• Surveillance-based firms acquire machine-intelligence companies to capture behavioral surplus supply routes
• Surveillance-based lending techniques developed for the global poor were exported to exploit US families.
• Surveillance-based mapping technology directly spawned the mobile game industry
• Surveillance-based mobile advertising made Facebook among the largest companies worldwide
• Sustained capitalist mutation requires new institutional forms, not merely destruction
• Synchronized coffee breaks raised a call center’s productivity by $15 million annually
• Targeted advertising systems automatically generated antisemitic ad categories
• Targeted advertising was foundational to surveillance capitalism’s origins
• Targeted influence structurally requires that its targets remain unaware
• Tech CEOs publicly described total knowledge of users as their ambition
• Tech elite treat total connectivity and information as unquestioned articles of faith
• Tech founders control their firms through extreme dual-class voting structures.
• Tech giants hold hundreds of billions in cash plus $1.6 trillion market capitalization.
• Tech giants’ salaries drained academia of data scientists, creating a missing generation.
• Tech leaders argue the government should not regulate fast-moving industries
• Tech leaders openly claim broad social impact as developers’ mandate.
• Technical complexity doubled as a secrecy strategy protecting surveillance operations
• Technical innovators fail to foresee economic exploitation of their omniscience technologies
• Technological inevitability is a myth; technology is always economic means.
• Television diffusion intensified social comparison and increased life dissatisfaction.
• Tenant-screening firms scrape private social media data without contest or appeal.
• Terms-of-service agreements bind users to contracts they never read
• Terrorism becomes the pretext for demanding automated certainty machines
• The ‘social physics’ program attracted establishment acclaim from UN to Microsoft to Google.
• The 1970s debate over behavior control marks a social discontinuity with the present
• The 2000 dot-com crash abruptly ended Google’s fundraising confidence
• The 2008 Obama campaign profiled over 250 million Americans with behavioral data
• The 2011 London riots were the worst breakdown of order since 1780
• The 2012 Obama campaign applied behavioral surplus prediction directly to voter targeting
• The affective-computing pioneer’s own company ended up doing surveillance capitalism
• The Aware Home was designed as a closed loop controlled by its occupants
• The belief in free destiny produced achievements whose unintended consequences now threaten our future
• The capacity to initiate new beginnings is the fundamental human source of freedom
• The Chinese state reasserted control when a private firm amassed vast credit-scoring power.
• The CIA reinterpreted Chinese brainwashing as Skinnerian operant conditioning on unpredictable reinforcement schedules.
• The CIA-backed mapping entrepreneur behind Street View built the world’s top AR game
• The CIA’s MKUltra project was kept secret partly because behavior modification was deemed illegitimate.
• The Common Rule emerged from a democratic struggle against governmental behavioral modification.
• The digital era shifts society’s axis from division of labor to division of learning
• The division of learning in society is the critical axis of social order
• The division of learning is decided purely by market forces without democratic counterweights.
• The dot-com crash wiped out startups and investor confidence within months
• The double movement can convert even robber-baron capitalism into genuine institutional mutation
• The European Commission publicly funded emotion-reading technology for advertising
• The experience of home shapes our most fundamental conceptual categories
• The founder who wanted medical applications was pushed out of her own startup
• The gaming industry pioneered the addiction design model Facebook later adopted.
• The greater good is oriented toward the owners of behavioral modification machinery
• The human homing-to-herd instinct becomes fatal against engineered predators
• The intelligence community and Google developed an elective affinity over information dominance.
• The internet became near-universal and normatively sacred within two decades of the web’s invention.
• The inward freedom to create meaning remains the ultimate sanctuary.
• The logic of mapping the world is structurally inexhaustible expansion
• The need for a protected home refuge is primal and innate
• The NSA paid Google to build search technology for intelligence use
• The NSA’s ICREACH program scaled to 850 billion shared communications events
• The paid telecom bill now also buys a digital strip search for surveillance
• The physics view of behavior treats freedom as mere unexplained ignorance
• The public corporation collapsed as employer, halving US public-firm employment between 1970 and 2000
• The question of whether machines master people must be re-decided by every generation
• The researcher behind Facebook’s prediction algorithms called his own work creepy
• The rhetoric of dark data frames all un-datafied behavior as a threat requiring capture
• The right to the future tense frames collective self-determination against surveillance
• The search for home is a profound, universal human need that drives extreme sacrifice.
• The self is the inward space where lived experience becomes personal meaning.
• The soul was explicitly excluded as unmeasurable from early social science
• The Spanish conquest followed a three-phase legalistic pattern now echoed digitally.
• The state cannot command instrumentarian power but must work through surveillance capitalists
• The state increasingly depends on private instrumentarian power for its security aims
• The surveillance capitalist project extends to society itself as an object of certainty
• The surveillance horizon extends to children’s toys that harvest underage behavioral surplus
• The tracking ID persists even after users opt out of targeted ads.
• The uncontract replaces contract risk with private firms’ machine-built plans for guaranteed outcomes.
• The uncontract replaces social indeterminacy with programmed machine determinism.
• The uncontract substitutes automated compulsion for millennia of contractual social work.
• The vision of tracking people traces back to a 1950s Galapagos tortoise experiment
• The wage premium for digital skills nearly doubled between 2002 and 2016
• The zenith of past achievements often marks the start of decline we cannot see
• There is no known effective method to anonymize location data
• There is nothing to hide is individually self-negating because disconnect enables inward awareness
• Three 2011 events together exposed both the promise and perils of the digital age
• Time elapsed without consequences is a deliberate habituation tactic
• Today’s emotion surveillance differs in kind, not just scale, from old advertising
• Top internet companies differ markedly in their commitment to surveillance capitalism.
• Total loyalty requires completely isolating a person from all other social ties
• Total measurement is sold through the lure of seamless personal convenience
• Totalitarian control targets the inner life, not just behavior
• Totalitarian ideology takes hold where individuals feel isolated, expendable, and lonely.
• Totalitarian power requires remaking individuals from inside outward with terror.
• Totalitarianism eluded systematic study until war’s end because of its secrecy and deliberate fact-torsion
• Totalitarianism’s crimes were so improbable that specialists failed to grasp them
• Totalitarianism’s novelty was so extreme it paralyzed even great minds
• Traditional industries like insurance now explicitly covet surveillance revenues modeled on Google
• Treating humans as a swarm is the foundation of instrumentarian society.
• Twenty-four hours offline triggers panic and loneliness in young people worldwide.
• Ubiquitous networked computing constitutes an unprecedented form of power unlike prior totalitarianism
• Unbearable inequality fueled the 2011 London riots as social revolutions
• Unchecked market economies generate divergence that threatens democratic societies.
• Unchecked market forces produce wealth divergence threatening democracy
• Unchecked self-regulating markets are destructive and require countervailing laws.
• Under surveillance capitalism the product is behavioral data, not the goods themselves
• Under surveillance capitalism, autonomy itself becomes the cardinal sin and friction the only evil
• Unfettered surveillance capital, not democratic law, decides the division of learning
• Unhappy Facebook browsing creates a self-reinforcing cycle that deepens depression
• University research centres get absorbed into commercial ventures for prediction capacity
• Unprecedented power cannot be constrained by law made before it exists
• Unstructured behavioral signals can reconstruct detailed narratives about each user
• Untamed surveillance capitalism eliminates all possibility of private refuge
• Until recently no instruments existed to automatically model face-to-face social interaction
• Upper-class luxuries historically become mass necessities through production cost declines
• US businesses chose machines over worker skills decades ago
• US health and fitness apps operate outside meaningful health privacy regulation
• US income inequality is dominated by top managers capturing historically unprecedented pay
• US law’s surveillance-capitalist allegiance may not be permanent
• US public corporations employed under half their 1970 American workforce by 2000
• US public corporations were dismantled in the 1980s as capitalism shifted toward financial speculation
• US startups use social and behavioral data to score unbanked consumers’ creditworthiness.
• User refusal to share data, not technical limits, is the core obstacle to prediction
• User-controlled privacy blocking is existential to Google because tracking feeds its profit engine
• User-downloadable personal data excludes the behavioral surplus that firms actually exploit.
• Users are not products but abandoned carcasses stripped of surplus
• Users are raw material suppliers whose behavior yields predictive products indifferent to their fate
• Users author a public-facing text while surveillance capitalism captures a hidden second text
• Utopian techno rhetoric is strategic propaganda that legitimates surveillance capitalism’s drive toward totality
• Utopic certainty derives from millenarian traditions of ordained futures.
• Variable reinforcement schedules can produce behaviors foreign to an animal’s natural repertoire
• Varian’s benign telematics prose conceals surveillance capitalism’s coercive power
• Varian’s perspectives reveal the premises of the new market form
• Velocity is deliberately weaponized to outpace democratic awareness and freeze resistance
• Violating a social norm triggers genuine panic until physical exit restores composure
• Violations of consumer expectations can spark democratic revolution
• Vizio secretly collected 100 billion viewing data points daily from 11 million smart TVs.
• Voice assistants sit between lived experience and its auctioning
• Voice interfaces translate service interactions into low-cost automated processes funneling behavioral surplus
• Voice modulation data can be sold to preempt psychological events for many client types
• Voice recordings reveal identities and intimate details that anonymity claims cannot protect
• Voice-assistant recordings are reviewed by human contractors despite corporate anonymity claims
• Volume economies of behavioral surplus gave way to quality of prediction
• Voluntary ‘best practices’ guidelines legitimize unconsented facial recognition by dressing it in toothless language
• Walden Two and 1984 are precise opposites, not both totalitarian portraits.
• Walden Two and 1984, both post-war utopias of opposing power logics, received opposite receptions.
• Wall Street rewarded iRobot for building a surveillance revenue model on home floor plans
• Wearable computer devices to monitor and control behavior were already imagined in the 1970s
• Wearable device adoption among US adults grew nearly 58 percent in a single year.
• Wearable device growth is driven primarily by surveillance revenue potential
• Web cookies became a contested policy issue before surveillance capitalism normalized them
• Web tracking expanded sharply even while privacy laws and concerns grew.
• Weiser’s ubiquitous computing framed virtual reality as a mere map, not the territory
• Western firms separately pursue the same social-credit practices China institutionalizes
• Western states must operate through surveillance capitalist firms to access instrumentarian power
• Wi-Fi wardriving expertise drew the engineer into Google’s data collection
• Wildlife telemetry techniques were repurposed as surveillance capitalism’s framework.
• Young people’s sudden disconnection from networks produces clinically diagnosed addiction symptoms
• Zuckerberg adopted the Like button only for its behavioral surplus.
• Zuckerberg frames Facebook as supplying purpose and hope to unsettled moderns