Shoshana Zuboff’s analysis of “The Coup We Are Not Talking About,” published in today’s Sunday New York Times, is an essential follow-up to her book Surveillance Capitalism, applying that book’s analysis to the situation we are living through. This other coup is the “epistemic coup” which, she writes, “proceeds in four stages”:
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The information coup
Posted in Media ecology, tagged Anomalies, conspiracies, conspiracy culture, digital media, epistemic crisis, Facebook, Google, Googlization, infodemic, information civilization, information war, media ecology, media politics, mediasphere, New York Times, Shoshana Zuboff, social media, surveillance capitalism on January 31, 2021 | 1 Comment »
We are surveillance capital stock
Posted in Media ecology, Politics, tagged behavioral surplus, books, cognitive capitalism, communicative capitalism, digital media, disembedding, information civilization, information economy, instrumentarian power, Karl Polanyi, knowledge economy, media ecology, Polanyi, Shoshana Zuboff, stages of capitalism, surveillance capitalism, The Great Transformation on June 29, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
I’m reading Shoshana Zuboff’s widely lauded The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, which some have placed alongside Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century as essential reading for understanding today’s global economy. The big conceptual idea I find most useful in it is its insistence that we are in the midst of a “fourth great transformation” […]
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