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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
3.97 AVERAGE
665 reviews for:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
3.97 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
informative
slow-paced
challenging
informative
slow-paced
DNF - just couldn’t get into this. I know it’s important but I’m too autistic for this
Thought this might be interesting popularization of surveillance studies but instead it’s a pseudo-intellectual attempt in the field that makes some gross generalizations with no citations in sight.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
WHEW! This tomb of a book packs a punch. Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff tells us about the negative implications that technological advancements such as drones and surveillance has led to an invasion of our privacy and discriminatory practices. Drawing on scholarly research, Zuboff gives us an in depth exploration into this new age way of data colonialism and technofuedalism. Highly highly HIGHLLYYYY RECOMMEND! I know I say that about a lot of books, but given the recent upbringing of Artificial Intelligence, this book is especially pertinent.
Ughh I think I have to give up on this one because the writing style is meandering and pretentious and clogged with excessive explanations and examples and attempts at being poetic. I felt like I got a lot out of the first half, but it feels like a slog at this point to finish it
the information is excellent. my ability to situate surveillance and instrumentarian power in the larger history of capitalism has improved drastically because of this book. i really appreciate the labor shoshana has done in studying this history and writing this detailed, well organized book.
the theory and analysis of capitalism more broadly is where she often lost me. discussed a bit of indigenous history but never meaningfully engaged with capitalism’s roots in slavery. don’t get why. the book reads as “capitalism is okay, surveillance capitalism is not” in some places.
glad i had just read glitchfeminisn before going into this book! i think my takeaways from that book complemented my reading of this book incredibly well. of course, prior readings also help. will never stop praising ruha benjamin.
the theory and analysis of capitalism more broadly is where she often lost me. discussed a bit of indigenous history but never meaningfully engaged with capitalism’s roots in slavery. don’t get why. the book reads as “capitalism is okay, surveillance capitalism is not” in some places.
glad i had just read glitchfeminisn before going into this book! i think my takeaways from that book complemented my reading of this book incredibly well. of course, prior readings also help. will never stop praising ruha benjamin.
this book was too long it pissed me off. too repetitive, gets into tangents that obfuscates her main arguments, doesnt present any solutions other than "resist!" but HOWWW
Library loan expired and I wasn't sufficiently interested to keep going with the audio book version. Maybe it's because these ideas have become a lot more mainstream since the book has come out?
The research in the book seems interesting but the radically skewed wording is very difficult to ignore. The author clearly pushes her own agenda alongside the research she’s trying to present