The age of surveillance5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() It is far too long, often overwrought, and employs far too much jargon. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with its near-700-page footprint, is thankfully not that kind of book. orks of technology criticism are often expected to provide a few hundred pages of doomsaying before providing a concise final chapter in which the Gordian knot of our problems is neatly and improbably cut. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism may lack a straightforward political program - Zuboff comes across as a liberal, albeit not one who slots neatly on the left-right axis - but it is loaded with useful economic, technological and anthropological analysis. Zuboff’s capacious book has room for minority opinions and other forms of dissent. may sound a little heady, like perhaps an overseasoned stew of po-mo economic jargon, but Zuboff will have you asking for another helping long before the book’s end. ![]() a doorstop of a book, an intensively researched, engagingly written chronicle of surveillance capitalism’s origins and its deleterious prospects for our society. ![]()
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