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2. The Cloud Empire

  • Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias
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The Costs of Connection
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© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2020 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface. Colonized by Data ix
  4. Part I. Extracting
  5. 1. The Capitalization of Life without Limit 3
  6. 2. The Cloud Empire 37
  7. Interlude. On Colonialism and the Decolonial Turn 69
  8. 3. The Coloniality of Data Relations 83
  9. Part II. Ordering
  10. 4. The Hollowing Out of the Social 115
  11. 5. Data and the Threat to Human Autonomy 153
  12. Part III. Reconnecting
  13. 6. Decolonizing Data 187
  14. Postscript. Another Path Is Possible 213
  15. Acknowledgments 217
  16. Notes 221
  17. Bibliography 265
  18. Index 307
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503609754-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. Preface. Colonized by Data ix
  4. Part I. Extracting
  5. 1. The Capitalization of Life without Limit 3
  6. 2. The Cloud Empire 37
  7. Interlude. On Colonialism and the Decolonial Turn 69
  8. 3. The Coloniality of Data Relations 83
  9. Part II. Ordering
  10. 4. The Hollowing Out of the Social 115
  11. 5. Data and the Threat to Human Autonomy 153
  12. Part III. Reconnecting
  13. 6. Decolonizing Data 187
  14. Postscript. Another Path Is Possible 213
  15. Acknowledgments 217
  16. Notes 221
  17. Bibliography 265
  18. Index 307
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