⚙️ Neo-Luddite Reading Group: ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by Shoshana Zuboff

• • Meeting 1 (Dec. 11th):📖 Introduction & Part One: The Foundations of Surveillance Capitalism
    • 1. Home or exile in the digital future
      • Gemini intelligence is coming to Google Home by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
    • 2. August 9, 2011: Setting the Stage for Surveillance Capitalism
      • 🗞️ Artificial intelligence is going to supercharge surveillance by James Vincent

• 3. The Discovery of Behavioral Surplus

• • • 🗞️ Everyone should decide how their digital data are used – not just tech companies by Jathan Sadowski, Salomé Viljoen, Meredith Whittaker
  • 4. The Moat Around the Castle
    • Google “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” by Dylan Patel and Afzal Ahmad
  • 5. The Elaboration of Surveillance Capitalism: Kidnap, Corner, Compete
    • 🗞️ Do platforms work? by George Zarkadakis
  • 6. Hijacked: The Division of Learning in Society
    • 🗞️ Writing and Learning to Write in the Age of AI by Jane Rosenzweig
• Meeting 2 (Jan. 8th):📖 Part II: The Advance of Surveillance Capitalism
  • 7. The Reality Business
    • TBA
  • 8. Rendition: From Experience to Data
    • 📜 Will we run out of data? An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning by Pablo Villalobos, Jaime Sevilla, Lennart Heim, Tamay Besiroglu, Marius Hobbhahn, & Anson Ho
  • 9. Rendition from the Depths.
    • TBA
  • 10. Make Them Dance
    • TBA
  • 11. The Right to the Future Tense
    • 🎥 On Bureaucratic Technologies and the Future as Dream-Time by David Graeber
• Meeting 3 (Feb. 12th):📖 Part III: Instrumentarian Power for a Third Modernity & Conclusion
  • 12. Two Species of Power
    • TBA
  • 13. Big Other and the Rise of Instrumentarian Power
    • TBA
  • 14. A Utopia of Certainty
    • TBA
  • 15. The Instrumentarian Collective
    • 🎥 The Case Against B.F. Skinner by Noam Chomsky
  • 16. Of Life in the Hive
    • 🎥 Can’t Get You Out of My Head E1 by Adam Curtis
  • 17. The Right to Sanctuary
    • TBA
  • 18. A Coup from Above”
    • 🎵 Spain by W.H. Auden

Additional resources

• Outreach Resources & Guides
  • 📜 Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data by Our Data Bodies
  • 📜 A People’s Guide to AI by Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cyborg (Diana Nucera)
  • 📜 Algorithmic Accountability: A Primer by Data & Society
  • 🗞️ Prior to (or instead of) using ChatGPT with your students by Autumn Caines
• Potential Future Reads
  • 📖 Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
  • 📖 Questioning Technology: Tool, Toy or Tyrant by John Zerzan & Alice Carnes
  • 📖 Technofix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment by Michael Huesemann & Joyce Huesemann
  • 📖 Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
  • 📖 The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow
• Links to more links
  • 📋 Critical Lenses on AI by Iris van Rooij
  • 📋 Resources by Ruha Benjamin
• More on Luddites
  • 🗞️ I’m a Luddite. You should be one too by Jathan Sadowski
  • 🗞️ Byron Was One of the Few Prominent Defenders of the Luddites by Kat Eschner
• Poems
  • 🎵 A Luddite Lullaby by Don Bogen
  • 🎵 All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan
  • 🎵 I Am the People, the Mob by Carl Sandburg
  • 🎵 They Say This Isn’t a Poem by Kenneth Rexroth
  • 🎵 Under Which Lyre by W.H. Auden
  • 🎵 When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman