It\u2019s redundant, at this point, to state how intimately tethered to the cybersphere we are. For whatever meaningful or trivial aspect of contemporary human life\u2014labor and commerce, relationships and sex, fitness and health, culture and entertainment\u2014there is an app, site, or tool that promises to optimize our pursuit of it, thus maximizing our chances at self-realization. In exchange for the algorithm\u2019s guidance, we cede data that map out our lives\u2014our live locations, daily routines, spending habits, search histories, conversations\u2014and thus consent to a \u201cnew economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales.\u201d <\/p>\n
Defined by Shoshana Zuboff as \u201cas significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth,\u201d surveillance capitalism is establishing itself as the \u201cdominant logic of accumulation of our age.\u201d Given its scope, hold, and voracity, it is difficult to imagine a more relevant issue to gather around, analyze, and respond to with rigor and creativity.<\/p>\n
For Centro\u2019s first Talking Circle, With Our Heads in The Cloud<\/em>, we will convene to discuss life under surveillance capitalism, critically engage with work by Tung-Hui Hu, Shoshana Zuboff, and others, and collectively gain practical knowledge that can help us navigate it more astutely. The series will be marked by two sessions held on consecutive Saturdays in October 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":139,"template":"","categories":[13],"class_list":["post-106","cpt_calendar","type-cpt_calendar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talking-circle-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n