4. Zuboff is a PSYOP

Published: Aug. 25, 2020, 8:22 p.m.

b'Episode now remastered so it sounds 1000x better!\\n\\nCold open: Agent Zuboff receives her mission.\\n\\nMain show: We politically cancel Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, for advancing / mainstreaming a reactionary critique. Surveillance capitalism is not a \\u201crogue mutation\\u201d of a normal capitalism. Surveillance is not the scapegoat that needs to be sacrificed so we can maintain a good version of consumption and commodification. We let you in on a little secret\\u2014one that Zuboff\\u2019s work is designed to obscure\\u2014the real horrors have been coming from inside capitalism all along.\\n\\nMorozov\\u2019s article on Zuboff\\u2019s bad analysis of surveillance capitalism: https://thebaffler.com/latest/capitalisms-new-clothes-morozov\\n\\nMonthly Review article with good analysis of surveillance capitalism: https://monthlyreview.org/2014/07/01/surveillance-capitalism/\\n\\nHosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl). Thanks to Laura for voice work on the cold open.'