Indirectly related to Morozov's insightful discussion of Zuboffs
"surveillance capitalism" is my own short blurb on
"surveillancism" at
http://databasecultures.irmielin.org/surveillancism (which I wrote
without having read Zuboff)
This tries to provide a kind of self-critique of how often
discussions of that might become interesting, turn to
"surveillance" instead. Comments would be welcome.
best
Francis
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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