Waking Up The Capitalist Mind
Author: L. Niall MacNamarro
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1445739232
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Author: Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 683
ISBN-13: 1610395700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Capitalism without Capital
Author: Jonathan Haskel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-10-16
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0691183295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success. But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the larger economic changes of the past decade, including the growth in economic inequality and the stagnation of productivity. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake explore the unusual economic characteristics of intangible investment and discuss how an economy rich in intangibles is fundamentally different from one based on tangibles. Capitalism without Capital concludes by outlining how managers, investors, and policymakers can exploit the characteristics of an intangible age to grow their businesses, portfolios, and economies.
Waking Up the Conditioned Mind
Author: Guru Nalaram C. Rolliman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010-04-03
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1445738368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn waking up the conditoned mind, renowned teacher, guru nalaram goes behind 35 vital topics that concern us in the world... Written in a non-judgemental, conversational style, guru nalaram, asks us to look deeply into ourselves and question not only everything he says but everything we think and believe, in order to uncover a mind free from the conditioning of society, education and tradition.#This book will take you on a wonderful journey of self discovery.
The Costs of Connection
Author: Nick Couldry
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1503609758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free—it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to generate profit. The Costs of Connection uncovers this process, this "data colonialism," and its designs for controlling our lives—our ways of knowing; our means of production; our political participation. Colonialism might seem like a thing of the past, but this book shows that the historic appropriation of land, bodies, and natural resources is mirrored today in this new era of pervasive datafication. Apps, platforms, and smart objects capture and translate our lives into data, and then extract information that is fed into capitalist enterprises and sold back to us. The authors argue that this development foreshadows the creation of a new social order emerging globally—and it must be challenged. Confronting the alarming degree of surveillance already tolerated, they offer a stirring call to decolonize the internet and emancipate our desire for connection.
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
Author: William H. Janeway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-08
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1107031257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique insight into the interaction between the state, financiers and entrepreneurs in the modern innovation economy.
Capitalist Realism
Author: Mark Fisher
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2022-11-25
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1803414316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of the ways in which capitalism has presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system.
Carceral Capitalism
Author: Jackie Wang
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-02-23
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1635900026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police? —from Carceral Capitalism In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.
Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Author: Fredric Jameson
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1992-01-06
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780822310907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
Be Excellent at Anything
Author: Tony Schwartz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-02
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1451610262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers strategies for enabling sustainable high performance by systematically investing in employee health and happiness, citing the vulnerabilities of common business practices while offering examples of effective leadership.
