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I recently learned that there is a name for this phenomenon where our reality is being increasingly digitized and financialized - "surveillance capitalism". Su
by kevmo 8y ago
I recently learned that there is a name for this phenomenon where our reality is being increasingly digitized and financialized - "surveillance capitalism".
Surveillance capitalism is a novel market form and a specific logic of capitalist accumulation that was first described in a 2014 essay by business theorist and social scientist Shoshana Zuboff. She characterized it as a "radically disembedded and extractive variant of information capitalism" based on the commodification of "reality" and its transformation into behavioral data for analysis and sales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism