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SUMMARY:Online Reading Group: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - PT. 3
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-We will be reading up to the end of Part 2 (Chapters 7 – 11).\n-Email info@springmag.ca for zoom link\n–RSVP via Facebook \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. \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. \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.” \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. \nWith 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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SUMMARY:Online reading group: We need socialist organization
DESCRIPTION:The capitalist system breeds a cruel world of racism\, sexism\, exploitation and climate chaos. These problems lead many to question the system and start thinking about alternatives. But\, as Antonio Gramsci said\, “ideas can’t live without organization.” The corporations\, the capitalist state\, the right wing are all organized. They are constantly learning and honing their methods. Our side needs organization too. To go from understanding the system to challenging it we need socialist organization. Join this discussion of the why\, what\, how and when of socialist organizing. \nEmail info@springmag.ca for zoom link\nRSVP via Facebook  \nSuggested Readings: \n-Why you should join a socialist organization: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/join-socialist-organization-dsa-working-class \n-Why socialists need organization: https://solidarity-us.org/whyorganization/ \n-Towards a revolutionary socialist party: https://www.marxists.org/archive/hallas/works/1971/xx/party.htm \n-The period\, the party and the next left: http://socialistworker.org/2019/03/22/the-period-the-party-and-the-next-left \n-The Dig Podcast\, “Organize to Win”: https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/organize-to-win-with-andres-celin-and-rapheal-randall/
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