Reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: our plan
Our online book club is starting to read Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.
Here’s the plan.
Every Monday I will blog about that week’s reading. These posts will include a summary, some observations, and some questions. I’ll work in some of your responses since the last post.
How can you respond? You, dear reader, can respond through whichever technological means makes the most sense to you. You can comment on each blog post. You can also write on Twitter, LinkedIn, your own blog, or elsewhere on the web. (If that sounds strange, here are some examples of previous readings, complete with reader responses.)
Here’s the schedule. I chose enough pages to allow folks enough time to read them in their busy lives, while also having enough material to dig into. It’s usually two chapters per week, or around 60–70 pages.
April 8 — chapter 1: Home or Exile in the digital Future; chapter 2: August 9, 2011: Setting the Stage for Surveillance Capitalism
April 15–3: The Discovery of Behavioral Surplus; 4: The Moat Around the Castle
April 22–5: The Elaboration of Surveillance Capitalism: Kidnap, Corner, Compete; 6: Hijacked: The Division of Learning in Society
April 29–7: The Reality Business; 8: Rendition: From Experience to Data
May 6–9: Rendition from the Depths; 10: Make Them Dance
May 13–11: The Right to the Future Tense; 12: Two Species of Power
May 20–13: Big Other and the Rise of Instrumentarian Power; 14: A Utopia of Certainty
May 27–15: The Instrumentation Collective; 16: Of Life in the Hive
June 3–17: The Right to Sanctuary; 18: A Coup from Above
June 10 — conclusions and extra notes.
If you want to catch up later, perhaps because you’re reading this in the future, after June 10, 2019, please do. Help yourself to our reading, with all content assembled under this header: https://bryanalexander.org/tag/zuboff/ .
Any questions or suggestions? Please fire away. And happy reading!
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Originally published at bryanalexander.org on April 4, 2019.
