Po kapitalizmie albo lęk przed cyfrową tyranią. Wokół Wieku kapitalizmu inwigilacji Shoshany Zuboff
After Capitalism or the Fear of Digital Tyranny: On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Summary/Abstract: Wróbel examines into what kind of narrative Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of SurveillanceCapitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power can be inscribed. Itis certainly a book about the end of capitalism, but also about the end of democracyand the end of the human being understood as a free, autonomous individual. Zuboffexplores the new era of extractivism focused no longer on energy, but on what she calls‘behavioural surplus’. Wróbel asks what surveillance capitalism is and how it differs fromindustrial capitalism. Does surveillance capitalism signify the death of capitalism and theentry into a new era ‘after capitalism’? Or does it merely transfer all the antagonisms andwell-known features of capitalism into the domain of digital information? If that whichcomes ‘after capitalism’ is not communism, could it be even scarier than capitalism itself,a strange fusion of exploitation, automation, commodification and life in the digitaldesert?

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