shoshana zuboff

In this episode of Netzrauschen Andreas talks with media artist Martin Nadal, who is developing his new project Fangøcam as part of his virtual residency at mur.at. Martin is currently based in Berlin whose work delves deeply into the technologies that are transforming our world. With a particular focus on the finance, blockchain and neural networks , exploring its impact society and culture.

Links zur Sendung:

Martin Nadal virtual residency: https://mur.at/post/2023-martinnadal/

Shoshana Zuboff The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism https://archive.org/details/shoshanazubofftheageofsurveillancecapitalism

https://martinnadal.eu/

https://unarchive.mur.at/artworks/fango-cam/

Gestaltung: Andreas Zingerle

Ton & Signation: Gernot Tutner

The End of the Attention Economy - What Comes Next? In this episode we connect the decline of the Attention Economy to China’s stringent new regulation of Big Tech. After an explosion of content without an expansion of market, does The Cloud hold the future for tech’s economic model? And if monopoly cloud vendors own the physical infrastructure, the data and ability to manufacture desire, will this, as Yanis Varoufakis claims, make serfs of all of us, including the traditional capitalist class?

We review Dean Kissick’s latest in his regular column The Downward Spiral, contrasting Clearview AI’s collaboration with the Ukrainian government to implement facial recognition software and social media in a terrifying new hybrid psychological warfare. We ask - should artists assert a moral response to the images of the Ukraine war delivered through the radical indifference of the data supply chain?

And we call out the mendacity and self-deception of the NRx ‘New Right’, as featured in James Pogue’s recent Vanity Fair profile. What is a nice, goodly Calvinist boy doing hanging out with these tourists?

Welcome to The Silence of Surveillance, a podcast about Art, Technology and  Politics in the new era of Technopolarity. Pro-Tech vs Anti-Tech is the political paradigm of the future, and it doesn’t break along traditional lines of left and right. Innovation and Disruption vs Freedom and Revolution - which side are you on? 
 

JAMES POGUE, Vanity Fair: INSIDE THE NEW RIGHT WHERE PETER THIEL IS PLACING HIS BIGGEST BETS

YANIS VAROUFAKIS, The Institute of Art and Ideas: CLOUDALISTS ARE TAKING OVER CAPITALISM

DEAN KISSICK, The Downward Spiral, SpikeArt Mag: DID NOT TAKE PLACE

THE GUARDIAN: Ukraine Uses Clearview AI Facial Recognition Software to Identify Dead Russian Soldiers

BLOOMBERG: Why China Keeps Targetting it’s Tech Giants

We're living in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." That's the title of a book by Shoshana Zuboff whose thinking has shaped my own as we look on the growing power of Big Tech.

The biggest flaw in most tech companies' business models is a general willingness to loot an individual's personal information-and thus his or her privacy-without payment for this data and without informed consent.

Did you know that a small percentage of apps provide your consent to remotely turn on your phone's microphone and record you after you signed their terms and conditions?

I imagine your response is like mine? "what?! I'd never agree to that."

I am certain a hard line on personal privacy would have a greater appeal to the public than many other issues currently separating the parties. Watch that vast uncharted space and which party moves to restore data that has been taken and to repair walls of privacy that were breached long ago.

Whoever gets there first will be a long-term winner.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're living in "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." That's the title of a book by Shoshana Zuboff whose thinking has shaped my own as we look on the growing power of Big Tech.

The biggest flaw in most tech companies' business models is a general willingness to loot an individual's personal information-and thus his or her privacy-without payment for this data and without informed consent.

Did you know that a small percentage of apps provide your consent to remotely turn on your phone's microphone and record you after you signed their terms and conditions?

I imagine your response is like mine? "what?! I'd never agree to that."

I am certain a hard line on personal privacy would have a greater appeal to the public than many other issues currently separating the parties. Watch that vast uncharted space and which party moves to restore data that has been taken and to repair walls of privacy that were breached long ago.

Whoever gets there first will be a long-term winner.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Answer: Your Data.

Your privacy doesn't matter and your data isn't protected. What piece of your private data is most valuable? Who is using your residual data? And what do they want to achieve? Surveillance Capitalism puts a whole new spin on a spectrum that starts with Pokémon Go and ends with QAnon.

La Fool and A talk facial recognition, pattern identification, behavioral tendencies - all keys to corporations, governments, and militaries controlling you.

--Additional Notes, Corrections, and Context for this Episode--
Occam's Razor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Surveillance Capitalism documentary with Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIXhnWUmMvw

Where does the tech industries’ power lie? Are they “mind-control” platforms, as some have described them, capable of influencing everything from consumer choices to election results, or does their true threat to society lie in market concentration? 

In this episode of Big Tech, Taylor Owen speaks with Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author, activist and journalist. Doctorow’s latest book, How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, argues that big tech’s purported powers of manipulation and control, peddled to advertisers and based on an overcollection of our data, are essentially an illusion. “Being able to target cheerleaders with cheerleading uniform ads does not make you a marketing genius or a mind controller. It just makes you someone who’s found an effective way to address an audience, so that even though your ad may not be very persuasive, you’re not showing an unpersuasive ad to someone who will never buy a cheerleading uniform,” Doctorow explains. 

Doctorow’s view is that the threats to society that big tech present are far less sinister than tech critics such as Shoshana Zuboff and Tristan Harris make them out to be. Rather, the big fives’ monopolistic practices are the real issues to wrestle with.

In this episode Ryder discusses how ideas become pervasive. We accept that technology is progress, and the thing we created, now controls us under the guise of being essential or more efficient. And essentialism is at odds with human needs and society. 

Ryder walks through how online surveillance to enhance products also captured 'exhaust data' which tracked users behavior. Eventually google figured out how to capitalize on this data, turning it into a revenue stream, but at the cost of user security and consent. 

While many people claim not to care, Ryder maps out a few examples of how this path is leading to negative results and manipulation by Facebook, Tinder, Pokemon Go, and Walmart. He also discusses the tech and techniques developed and pioneered online being used by China to control citizens through social credit scores and facial recognition for tracking and abusing ethnic minorities. 

The Will to DIY website has references and sources: https://thewilltodiy.com/step-15-surveillance-capitalism/

2:18 Technology as the new religion: removing human agency for the sake of "progress"

5:00 Your tears were lost, but now they are found. And Google will use them to manipulate you. 

8:59 Control Corp's happy familteam loves their tracking devices!

13:27 "Lure Modules" via Pokemon Go: pre-determining your behavior 

15:49 "You really hurt your Uncle Walmart" the panopticon of time

19:30 China's social credit system: the "trustworthiness score"

Shoshana Zuboff of Harvard University talks about her book Surveillance Capitalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Zuboff argues that the monetization of search engines and social networks by Google, Facebook, and other large tech firms threatens privacy and democracy.