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Resisting “Big Other”: What Will It Take to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism?

Resisting “Big Other”: What Will It Take to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism? Rodrigo de Matos, Expresso. www.rodrigocartoon.com 864097 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796019864097New Labor ForumMalmgren research-article2019 New Labor Forum 2019, Vol. 28(3) 42 –50 Resisting “Big Other”: What Will Copyright © 2019, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: It Take to Defeat Surveillance sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019864097 DOI: 10.1177/1095796019864097 Capitalism? journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Evan Malmgren Keywords informal economy, capitalism, neoliberalism, privatization, labor “Electrical information devices for defense of individual privacy rights, antitrust universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb action that would seek solutions through surveillance are causing a very serious increased market competition, and a libertar- dilemma between our claim to privacy ian culture of “opting out,” or attempting to and the community’s need to know.” hide from the surveillance regime. But the dif- fuse network generating these problems oper- —Marshall McLuhan, ates at a mass social scale, and thus demands The Medium is the Massage an organized and collective response. In this essay, I hope to sketch a foundation for diag- The past few years have ushered in a sea change nosing this ambient social malaise, understand- in public perception of the tech industry. While ing how the private-sector surveillance regime Silicon Valley was once cherished by progres- has renegotiated the relationship between lei- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

Resisting “Big Other”: What Will It Take to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism?

Malmgren, Evan
New Labor Forum , Volume 28 (3): 9 – Sep 1, 2019
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Rodrigo de Matos, Expresso. www.rodrigocartoon.com 864097 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796019864097New Labor ForumMalmgren research-article2019 New Labor Forum 2019, Vol. 28(3) 42 –50 Resisting “Big Other”: What Will Copyright © 2019, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: It Take to Defeat Surveillance sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796019864097 DOI: 10.1177/1095796019864097 Capitalism? journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Evan Malmgren Keywords informal economy, capitalism, neoliberalism, privatization, labor “Electrical information devices for defense of individual privacy rights, antitrust universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb action that would seek solutions through surveillance are causing a very serious increased market competition, and a libertar- dilemma between our claim to privacy ian culture of “opting out,” or attempting to and the community’s need to know.” hide from the surveillance regime. But the dif- fuse network generating these problems oper- —Marshall McLuhan, ates at a mass social scale, and thus demands The Medium is the Massage an organized and collective response. In this essay, I hope to sketch a foundation for diag- The past few years have ushered in a sea change nosing this ambient social malaise, understand- in public perception of the tech industry. While ing how the private-sector surveillance regime Silicon Valley was once cherished by progres- has renegotiated the relationship between lei-

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