{"id":51021,"date":"2020-02-08T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51021"},"modified":"2020-02-08T08:19:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T13:19:16","slug":"part-two-of-surveillance-capitalism-at-the-limits-to-economic-growth-social-controls-through-digital-infrastructures-have-bio-physical-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51021","title":{"rendered":"Part Two of Surveillance Capitalism at the Limits to Economic Growth \u2013 social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.credoeconomics.com\/part-two-of-surveillance-capitalism-at-the-limits-to-economic-growth-social-controls-through-digital-infrastructures-have-bio-physical-limits\/\">Part Two of Surveillance Capitalism at the Limits to Economic Growth \u2013 social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Part Two<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Shoshana Zuboff, to be human involves using one\u2019s will to shape one\u2019s own future. In this respect she draws on the philosopher Hannah Arendt. Arendt analysed the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and saw the frustration of the will of each person to shape their future as crucial to her analysis of totalitarianism. For Arendt the will is \u201cthe organ for the future.\u201d In Chapter Eleven Zuboff uses the writing of her book \u2013 or her commitment to write it \u2013 as an example of what it means \u201cto have a claim to the future tense\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cJust as the past always presents itself to the mind in the guise of certainty, the future\u2019s main characteristic is its basic uncertainty, no matter how high a degree of probability prediction may attain.\u201d\u2026.with freedom of will we undertake action that is entirely contingent on our determination to see our project through. These are acts that we could have left undone but for our commitment. \u201cA will that is not free\u201d, Arendt concludes, \u201cis a contradiction in terms.\u201d<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zuboff adds:\u00a0<em>\u201cThe freedom of will is the existential bone structure that carries the moral flesh of every promise and my insistence on its integrity is not an indulgence in nostalgia or a random privileging of the pre digital human story as somehow more truly human. This is the only kind of freedom that we can guarantee ourselves, no matter what the weight of entropy or inertia\u2026.These bones are the necessary condition for the possibility of civilisation as a \u2018moral milieu\u2019 that favours the dignity of the individual and respects the distinctively human capacities for dialogue and problem solving. Any person, idea or practice that breaks these bones and tears this flesh robs us of a self authored and we-authored future\u201d<\/em>\u00a0(p331)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part Two of Surveillance Capitalism at the Limits to Economic Growth \u2013 social controls through digital infrastructures have bio-physical limits Part Two For Shoshana Zuboff, to be human involves using one\u2019s will to shape one\u2019s own future. In this respect she draws on the philosopher Hannah Arendt. 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