具体描述
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth.
Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification."
The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit--at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future.
With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future--if we let it.
作者简介
Shoshana Zuboff is an American author and scholar. She is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin.
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新左评论上的书评 New Left Review Vol 121 (2020) 132 ROB LUCAS THE SURVEILLANCE BUSINESS For almost every year since 2013, a defining feature forecast or declared in retrospect by at least one major publication—Economist, Guardian, oed, ft—has been the ‘t...
新左评论上的书评 New Left Review Vol 121 (2020) 132 ROB LUCAS THE SURVEILLANCE BUSINESS For almost every year since 2013, a defining feature forecast or declared in retrospect by at least one major publication—Economist, Guardian, oed, ft—has been the ‘t...
新左评论上的书评 New Left Review Vol 121 (2020) 132 ROB LUCAS THE SURVEILLANCE BUSINESS For almost every year since 2013, a defining feature forecast or declared in retrospect by at least one major publication—Economist, Guardian, oed, ft—has been the ‘t...
新左评论上的书评 New Left Review Vol 121 (2020) 132 ROB LUCAS THE SURVEILLANCE BUSINESS For almost every year since 2013, a defining feature forecast or declared in retrospect by at least one major publication—Economist, Guardian, oed, ft—has been the ‘t...
新左评论上的书评 New Left Review Vol 121 (2020) 132 ROB LUCAS THE SURVEILLANCE BUSINESS For almost every year since 2013, a defining feature forecast or declared in retrospect by at least one major publication—Economist, Guardian, oed, ft—has been the ‘t...
用户评价
过誉,not very original,避重就轻,缺乏“监控资本主义”造成的阶层与族群更深隔绝视角,依然在“个体自由”与“西方民主”框架下,即有局限,也比较cliched。 其中很多问题已被Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon更深刻地讨论过。
1984是怎么组装的
我当年写毕业论文的时候参考了许多Zuboff的文章,但是当时我的老师们都没听说过她,突然发现这本书的评价是masterwork我就淡定了。
让大家看清楚Google Facebook的底裤。After all, behaviorism teaches that free will is but an illusion; all behavior can be explained by the circumstances that precede it. Expose people to specific stimuli and you’ll get a specific response.
过誉,not very original,避重就轻,缺乏“监控资本主义”造成的阶层与族群更深隔绝视角,依然在“个体自由”与“西方民主”框架下,即有局限,也比较cliched。 其中很多问题已被Zygmunt Bauman and David Lyon更深刻地讨论过。