The Costs of Connection:
How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism
Contents
Preface: Colonized by Data
PART I: EXTRACTING
Chapter One: The Capitalization of Life without Limit
Chapter Two: Cloud Empire
Interlude: On Colonialism and the Decolonial Turn
Chapter Three: The Coloniality of Data Relations
PART II: ORDERING
Chapter Four: The Hollowing Out of the Social
Chapter Five: Data and the Threat to Human Autonomy
PART III: RECONNECTING
Chapter Six: Decolonizing Data
Postscript: Another Path is Possible
Acknowledgements
References
Index