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SUMMARY:West Coast Reading Group: Who do the Police Serve and Protect?
DESCRIPTION:The movement against police brutality and racism are continuing to grow in the US\, Canada\, and the world. There is an ever increasing push on government on all levels to defund and abolish policing. What would this mean for our communities? What is the role of policing today? Do the police serve and protect all citizens\, or a select few?\n  \nJoin the next Spring reading group to take part in this important discussion. This is building off our last discussion of Marxism\, oppression\, and racism with a specific focus on looking at the role that police and violence play in the state\, the movement to defund and abolish\, as well as the role of organized socialists and revolutionaries.\n\n  \nRecommended Resources and Readings:\nThe Socialist Case Against the Police: Abolish the Police – https://rampantmag.com/2020/03/31/abolish-the-police/\nRevolution in the 21st Century\, Chps. 7-9 – https://www.marxists.org/archive/harman/2007/revolution/index.html\n  \nEmail Spring at info@springmag.ca for a zoom link \nTo RSVP via Facebook Click Here
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SUMMARY:Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
DESCRIPTION:The 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.\n  \nIn 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.\n  \n\nZuboff 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.”\n  \n\nThe 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.\n\n  \n\nJoin us for an online reading group of this very substantial read. We are proposing to read it in chunks\, with the first meet up being on July 11 and the goal for us to discuss the first two chapters entitled:\n  \n1. Home or Exile in the Digital Future \n2. August 9\, 2011: Setting the Stage for Surveillance Capitalism \n  \nFor a copy of the book email: info@springmag.ca \nFor a Zoom link: info@springmag.ca  \n 
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SUMMARY:Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - PT. 2
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an online reading group of this very substantial read. We are reading this book in sections. This is our second meeting to discuss this book. But all are welcome\, even if you missed our last discussion.\n  \n-We will be reading up to the end of Part 1 (Chapters 1 – 6)\n–For Zoom link email: info@springmag.ca \nThe 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.\n  \nIn 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.”\n  \nThe 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.
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