Big data, like Soylent Green, is made of people

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Datafication

Notes

Response to Frank Pasquale

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we are doomed, but this time by our own visions of utopia. Here is a vision of such intensive Taylorism and management that the words Taylorism and management misdirect the fantasy

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a vision in which machines of loving grace, interfaces of capture and algorithmic decision-making, become the very structures of determination that makes our lives possible

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personalized care that is actually predicated on the participation of a much larger and abstract social body

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we are actually sharing not only our data, but the very rhythms, circulations, palpitations, and mutations of our bodies

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the terrain of rights— and the very subject who may participate in those rights-is precisely the terrain that is being reformulated by ubiquitous computing and automation

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the coupling of large scale databases and adaptive algorithms are calling forth a new “onto- logic of sociality itself.”

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empiricism based in the desire or impulse to capture and redeploy the indeterminacy of life itself.

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this ontological shift is being carried in on the heels of massive wealth capture and historically high levels of inequality—not only economic inequality, but political dispossession

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the algorithmic architectures that are coming to underpin the material conditions of human life will also guarantee that those in power remain in power

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politics of solidarity that can reconceptualize how and where value is being produced, as well as how and where humans reside among and with machines and algorithms.

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