On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 9:00 AM Felix Stalder <fe...@openflows.com wrote:

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> I found Mozorov's massive review more interesting.
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> https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov


Yes I totally agree. Morozov presents the most important Marxist analyses
that Zuboff doesn't bother to reference - exactly the ones that have been
nettime mainstays for 20 years. He also shows the narrowness of an account
centered only on corporate consumerism, remarking that the resistance and
transformation Zuboff calls for

" will not win before both managerial capitalism and surveillance
capitalism are theorized as “capitalism”—a complex set of historical and
social relationships between capital and labor, the state and the monetary
system, the metropole and the periphery—and not just as an aggregate of
individual firms responding to imperatives of technological and social
change. "

That said, to judge by chapter 1, Surveillance Capitalism is worth reading.
It provokes and infuriates me by what it leaves out, but it's fascinating
at points and hopefully gets better as you go. Morozov has written the
perfect intro for a critical read of what might become a landmark book- if
the situation it describes does not again suddenly change beyond
recognition, as it easily could.

Best, Brian

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