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Book SynopsisThe corporate world is watching us, but why does no one watch them? Writer for the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman Peter Bloom presents provocative analysis of a twenty-first century paradox: how it is that capitalism regulates our lives whilst big business and finance become increasingly less regulated and controllable themselves.
Trade Review'A brisk and insightful guide to our world of increasingly ubiquitous surveillance that poses challenging questions about who is surveilled, who has privacy, and how we are being sold the chains to our own imprisonment' -- Nick Srnicek, King's College London 'Monitored is the nonfiction equivalent of Orwell's 1984. In a terrifying account of the new age of surveillance, Bloom demonstrates how Big Brother is actually Big Data. Society has been fractured by data technologies under the crushing weight of the free market, yet Bloom convincingly argues that monitoring might be yielded to the purpose of radical change' -- Simon Springer, author of 'The Discourse of Neoliberalism' and 'The Anarchist Roots of Geography' 'The data economy features surveillance which is simultaneously everywhere and nowhere. This book is essential reading for those who wish to identify, resist and challenge the surveillance consequences of big data for the individual, for democracy and for society' -- Kirstie Ball, University of St Andrews
Table of ContentsPreface: Completely Monitored 1. Accountable Subjects, Unaccountable Capitalism 2. The Growing Threat of Digital Control 3. Surveilling Ourselves 4. Smart Realities 5. Digital Salvation 6. Planning Your Life at the End of History 7. Totalitarianism 4.0 8. The Revolution Will Not Be Monitored
