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Surveillance capitalism: definitions

From the beginning of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, which is excellent so far:

Sur-veil-lance Cap-i-tal-ism, n.

1. A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales;
   
   
2. A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture of behavioral modification;
   
   
3. A rogue mutation of capitalism marked by concentrations of wealth, knowledge, and power unprecedented in human history;
   
   
4. The foundational framework of a surveillance economy;
   
   
5. As significant a threat to human nature in the twenty-first century as industrial capitalism was to the natural world in the nineteenth and twentieth;
   
   
6. The origin of a new instrumentarian power that asserts dominance over society and presents startling challenges to market democracy;
   
   
7. A movement that aims to impose a new collective order based on total certainty;
   
   
8. An expropriation of critical human rights that is best understood as a coup from above: an overthrow of the people’s sovereignty.