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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476793203321

Autore

Bloom Peter (Social science teacher)

Titolo

Monitored : Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data / / Peter Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Pluto Press, , 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-78680-393-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 248 pages)

Disciplina

322.3

Soggetti

Corporations - Political activity

Corporations - Corrupt practices

Electronic surveillance

Liberty

Big data - Social aspects

Privacy, Right of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Monitored subjects, unaccountable capitalism -- The growing threat of digital control -- Surveilling ourselves -- Smart realities -- Digital salvation -- Planning your life at the end of history -- Totalitarianism 4.0 -- The revolution will not be monitored.

Sommario/riassunto

The corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them? "This book explores a central contradiction of 21st century economy and society: the more morally and politically unaccountable capitalism and capitalists are, the more accountable the mass majority of its subjects must become. The technocratic ideology and surveillance culture of our modern marketized societies hides a deeper reality of a free market that is unmanageable and a corporate elite whose actions cannot be traced let alone regulated. This work highlights the paradoxical way an often disjointed and unjustifiable modern neoliberalism persists through subjecting individuals and communities to a wide range of technical and ethical 'accounting' in all areas of contemporary life. These pervasive practices of monitoring and codifying everything and everyone mask how at its heart this system



and its elites remain socially uncontrollable and ethically out of control"--